The Right to Vote
Subtitle: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: August 21, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780465029686
First sentence: AS THE MEN WHO WOULD LATER BE CALLED "the framers" of the United States Constitution trickled into Philadelphia during the late spring of 1787 (most of them arrived late), they had weighty issues on their minds: whether the Articles of Confederation should be revised or replaced with an altogether new plan of government; how the federal government could be made stronger without undermining the power of the states; resolving the already brewing conflict over the apportionment of representatives between large and small states; and contending with the freighted and divisive matter of slavery.