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55 Men - The Story of the Constitution, Based on the Day-by-Day Notes of James Madison (Paperback, Pbk ed.)
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55 Men - The Story of the Constitution, Based on the Day-by-Day Notes of James Madison (Paperback, Pbk ed.)
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Loot Price R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
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The 55 men who traveled to Philadelphia on horse and by stagecoach
in the spring of 1787 as delegates to a Convention on the Articles
of Confederation had been warned by the states that sent them to do
nothing more than make a few changes in the flimsy articles. But
when they went back to their home states, after working and
debating through four long months of a hot Philadelphia summer,
they had done a great deal more: they had done a great deal more:
they had set down on paper the foundation of the United States.
They had drafted the Constitution. What happened during the secret
Constitutional Convention? What did these 55 Founding Fathers
actually say in the debates? Fred Rodell bases his book directly on
the much neglected day-by-day notes which James Madison took during
the Constitutional Convention and on the hastily scribbled papers
of a few other delegates. In these frank recordings, the true story
of the birth of the Constitution is found. 55 Men: the Story of the
Constitution is a stirring drama o
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