The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
Subtitle: Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: December 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 677
ISBN-13: 9781591024712
Subjects: Political structure & processes; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Democracy; U.S. Constitutional History; History; History - U.S; History: American; USA; Constitutions; Political History; United States - 18th Century; United States - Revolutionary War; (1787); Constitutional Convention; Constitutional history; Sources; United States
First sentence: As the weakness and wants of man naturally lead to an association of individuals, under a common authority, whereby each may have the protection of the whole against danger from without, and enjoy in safety within, the advantages of social intercourse, and an exchange of the necessaries &amp; comforts of life : in like manner feeble communities, independent of each other, have resorted to a Union, less intimate, but with common Councils, for the common safety agst powerful neighbors, and for the preservation of justice and peace among themselves.