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Contested Conventions is a cohesive and compelling account of the defining issues that led to the establishment of the Constitution; it should appeal to history students and scholars alike.

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This informative study will fit in collections dealing with the birth of the nation at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The writing style is such that it should also appeal to a general readership. This work deserves to be in the libraries of all four-year institutions. Highly recomended. Choice

Table of Contents

Introduction
Abbreviations Used in the Notes
Part One
The Critical Period of American History
1. A Union of Large and Small States
2. A Union with Slaveholders
Part Two
Stacking the Deck
3. Massachusetts and the First Nine States
4. Virginia Matters
5. New York Joins the Union
6. North Carolina, the Bill of Rights, and the Madisonian Exchange
Epilogue
Appendixes
A. The Perils of Originalism
B. Constitutional Convention: Attendance by States
C. Chronology of Ratification
Index

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 10 October 2016
      ISBN-13 9781421420264
      978-1421420264
      ISBN-10 1421420260
      Also in:
      Constitution: government and the state

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Contested Conventions is a cohesive and compelling account of the defining issues that led to the establishment of the Constitution; it should appeal to history students and scholars alike.

      Trade Review
      This informative study will fit in collections dealing with the birth of the nation at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The writing style is such that it should also appeal to a general readership. This work deserves to be in the libraries of all four-year institutions. Highly recomended. Choice

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Abbreviations Used in the Notes
      Part One
      The Critical Period of American History
      1. A Union of Large and Small States
      2. A Union with Slaveholders
      Part Two
      Stacking the Deck
      3. Massachusetts and the First Nine States
      4. Virginia Matters
      5. New York Joins the Union
      6. North Carolina, the Bill of Rights, and the Madisonian Exchange
      Epilogue
      Appendixes
      A. The Perils of Originalism
      B. Constitutional Convention: Attendance by States
      C. Chronology of Ratification
      Index

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