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Plain, honest men : the making of the American Constitution
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Title
Plain, honest men : the making of the American Constitution / Richard Beeman.
ISBN
9781400065707 (alk. paper)
1400065704 (alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Random House, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Summary
From distinguished historian Richard Beeman comes a dramatic and engrossing account of the men who met in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 to design a radically new form of government. Beeman takes readers behind the scenes and beyond the debate to show how the world's most enduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and, eventually, fragile consensus during a time when many Americans feared that a combination of financial distress and civil unrest would doom the young nation's experiment in liberty.
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Internet Archive collection.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-448) and index.
Contents
Principal characters
The Constitutional Convention of 1787: a chronology
The crisis
The indispensable men of the Convention
The delay that produced a revolution
The Convention opens for business
A high-stakes gamble
"We the people" or "We the states"? Creating the American Congress
Imagining the American presidency
Counterattack
"We are now at full stop"
The Fourth of July, 1787
Compromise: large states, small states, slave states, and free states
Beyond the Connecticut Compromise
"The people are the King"
Fashioning a first draft of the Constitution: July 27 - August 6
Revising the Constitution: August 6-31
The "general welfare" and the presidency
"The paradox at the nation's core"
A fragile consensus: Sep 10-15
Sep 17: Day of decision
The People's Constitution: "Federalists" seize the initiative
Achieving a more perfect union: the Federalists prevail
"A Republic, if you can keep it"
Full list of delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787
U. S. Constitution (Sep 17, 1787), Article I-VII
A note about quotations.
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