From Parchment to Power
Subtitle: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constitution
Publisher: Aei Pr
Published: January 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780844740126
Subjects: Constitution: government & the state; Constitutional & administrative law; Human rights; Politics - Current Events; Constitutions; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; United States - General; Politics/International Relations; USA; Constitutional; U.S. Government; Madison, James; Constitutional History; 1751-1836; Madison, James,; United States
First sentence: In the final weeks of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, in late August and early September of 1787, all the great substantive issues had been voted on and the final text of the proposed new Constitution for the United States of America was practically ready to be engrossed on four pages of parchment.