An excellent resource for students and general readers, presenting documents by 18th-century American writers on the debate over ratification of the Constitution. Documents range from newspaper articl
Through a selection of essential documents from 1787 and 1788, this book gives readers the flavor and immediacy of the great debate in all its political intensity. This updated edition contains an ent
Ratifying the Republic explains how the United States Constitution made the transition from a very divisive proposal to a consensually legitimate framework for governing. This story has never been to
In analyzing the debates between the Federalists and the Antifederalists, McWilliams, Gibbons, and their contributors break sharply with interpretations of the founding of America as either the work o
