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Download or read book Ratification written by Pauline Maier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The defining book of the American Revolution era and a winner of the George Washington Book Award, Ratification chronicles the pivotal moments and key figures in transforming the US Constitution from an idea into a transformational document and the Constitutional Convention into a working government. When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect. There was reason to doubt whether that would happen. The document we revere today as the foundation of our country’s laws, the cornerstone of our legal system, was hotly disputed at the time. Some Americans denounced the Constitution for threatening the liberty that Americans had won at great cost in the Revolutionary War. One group of fiercely patriotic opponents even burned the document in a raucous public demonstration on the Fourth of July. In this splendid new history, Pauline Maier tells the dramatic story of the yearlong battle over ratification that brought such famous founders as Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and Henry together with less well-known Americans who sometimes eloquently and always passionately expressed their hopes and fears for their new country. Men argued in taverns and coffeehouses; women joined the debate in their parlors; broadsides and newspaper stories advocated various points of view and excoriated others. In small towns and counties across the country people read the document carefully and knew it well. Americans seized the opportunity to play a role in shaping the new nation. Then the ratifying conventions chosen by "We the People" scrutinized and debated the Constitution clause by clause. Although many books have been written about the Constitutional Convention, this is the first major history of ratification. It draws on a vast new collection of documents and tells the story with masterful attention to detail in a dynamic narrative. Each state’s experience was different, and Maier gives each its due even as she focuses on the four critical states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York, whose approval of the Constitution was crucial to its success. The New Yorker Gilbert Livingston called his participation in the ratification convention the greatest transaction of his life. The hundreds of delegates to the ratifying conventions took their responsibility seriously, and their careful inspection of the Constitution can tell us much today about a document whose meaning continues to be subject to interpretation. Ratification is the story of the founding drama of our nation, superbly told in a history that transports readers back more than two centuries to reveal the convictions and aspirations on which our country was built.
Book Synopsis The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: 1 April to 9 May 1788 by :
Download or read book The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: 1 April to 9 May 1788 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America by : John Adams
Download or read book A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the constitution by the states: v. 2. Pennsylvania. v. 3. Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut. v. 4-7. Massachusetts. v. 8-10. Virginia by : Merrill Jensen
Download or read book The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the constitution by the states: v. 2. Pennsylvania. v. 3. Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut. v. 4-7. Massachusetts. v. 8-10. Virginia written by Merrill Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution by : Merrill Jensen
Download or read book The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution written by Merrill Jensen and published by Madison House Publishers, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis The Letters of Centinel by : Samuel Bryan
Download or read book The Letters of Centinel written by Samuel Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Massachusetts (2), 1 April to 9 May 1788 by : Merrill Jensen
Download or read book The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Massachusetts (2), 1 April to 9 May 1788 written by Merrill Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis The Founding Fathers by : Richard B. Bernstein
Download or read book The Founding Fathers written by Richard B. Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and elegant contribution to the Very Short Introduction series reintroduces the history that shaped the founding fathers, the history that they made, and what history has made of them. The book provides a context within which to explore the world of Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, and Hamilton, as well as their complex and still-controversial achievements and legacies.
Book Synopsis Shays's Rebellion by : Leonard L. Richards
Download or read book Shays's Rebellion written by Leonard L. Richards and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful armed rebellion against the state of Massachusetts. Their desperate struggle was fueled by the injustice of a regressive tax system and a conservative state government that seemed no better than British colonial rule. But despite the immediate failure of this local call-to-arms in the Massachusetts countryside, the event fundamentally altered the course of American history. Shays and his army of four thousand rebels so shocked the young nation's governing elite—even drawing the retired General George Washington back into the service of his country—that ultimately the Articles of Confederation were discarded in favor of a new constitution, the very document that has guided the nation for more than two hundred years, and brought closure to the American Revolution. The importance of Shays's Rebellion has never been fully appreciated, chiefly because Shays and his followers have always been viewed as a small group of poor farmers and debtors protesting local civil authority. In Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle, Leonard Richards reveals that this perception is misleading, that the rebellion was much more widespread than previously thought, and that the participants and their supporters actually represented whole communities—the wealthy and the poor, the influential and the weak, even members of some of the best Massachusetts families. Through careful examination of contemporary records, including a long-neglected but invaluable list of the participants, Richards provides a clear picture of the insurgency, capturing the spirit of the rebellion, the reasons for the revolt, and its long-term impact on the participants, the state of Massachusetts, and the nation as a whole. Shays's Rebellion, though seemingly a local affair, was the revolution that gave rise to modern American democracy.
Download or read book Cato's Letters written by John Trenchard and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Edited by Max Farrand by : United States
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Book Synopsis Minds & Hearts by : Jeffrey H. Hacker
Download or read book Minds & Hearts written by Jeffrey H. Hacker and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a firebrand attorney and political agitator, James Otis Jr. helped to shape colonial resistance in the decades leading up to the American Revolution, establishing individual rights and "no taxation without representation" as cornerstones of the patriot cause. After his violent coffeehouse altercation and bouts with mental illness, his younger sister, Mercy Otis Warren, took up his cause. Her incendiary plays and poems rallied colonial opinion in the lead-up to the war, and her chronicle of the period established her as America's first female historian. Minds and Hearts is the dual biography of these remarkable siblings, placing James and Mercy in the spotlight together for the first time, amid the rush of events, competing ideologies, and changing social conditions of eighteenth-century America. Jeffrey H. Hacker crafts a compelling narrative that focuses on the Otises' unique and dramatic relationship and traces their impact on the Revolutionary movement in Massachusetts. If the real American Revolution took place "in the minds and hearts of the people," as John Adams claimed, then the Otises were among the nation's true patriots.
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Book Synopsis A Letter to George Washington by : Thomas Paine
Download or read book A Letter to George Washington written by Thomas Paine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A letter to George Washington Paine, Thomas The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Book Synopsis The Education of John Adams by : Richard B. Bernstein
Download or read book The Education of John Adams written by Richard B. Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a free-standing companion to Bernstein's 2003 biography Thomas Jefferson, responds to the public curiosity about Adams, his life, and his work for those intrigued by popular-culture portrayals of Adams in the Broadway musical 1776 and the HBO television miniseries John Adams. As with Bernstein's other work (e.g., The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction), it is a clear, scholarly, concise, well-written, and well-researched account of Adams's life, career, and thought addressing anyone seeking to learn more about him.
Book Synopsis The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War by : Michael F. Conlin
Download or read book The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War written by Michael F. Conlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis George Washington, a Biography: Patriot and President by : Douglas Southall Freeman
Download or read book George Washington, a Biography: Patriot and President written by Douglas Southall Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis George Washington: Patriot and President by : Douglas Southall Freeman
Download or read book George Washington: Patriot and President written by Douglas Southall Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in Peace : completes the work left unfinished at the time of Douglas Southall Freeman's death. Freeman wrote the original 6 volume biography on Washington.
