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The Constitutional Convention of 1787 - A Reference Guide (Hardcover)
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The Constitutional Convention of 1787 - A Reference Guide (Hardcover)
Series: Guides to Historic Events in America
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This history of the 1787 Constitutional Convention uses a
chronological narrative format to capture the complexity,
messiness, and unfolding daily drama behind the writing of the U.S.
Constitution, as well as the role of contingency in that process.
The Framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a novel republican
form of government to replace the failing Confederation, one that
would divide power between the federal government and the states,
launching a new phase of the American "experiment" in
representative democracy. Not until the end of the American Civil
War, nearly a century later, would it become clear, as Abraham
Lincoln put it in his Gettysburg Address, "that government of the
people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the
earth." The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Reference Guide
provides an invaluable guide covering the background to the
convention, the convention itself, the ratification of the
Constitution, and the adoption of the Bill of Rights. In addition
to the narrative itself, the story of the convention is
supplemented with a detailed chronology, a rich selection of
primary source documents, 15 biographical sketches of convention
delegates, and a comprehensive bibliographical essay. Based largely
on primary sources, the book also weighs in on some of the
historiographical debates that have taken place among scholars
about the convention.
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