Ratification
Subtitle: the people debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
By: Pauline Maier
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 589
ISBN-13: 9780684868547; 9781451606362
Subjects: Constitutional history; United States; Public opinion
Description: The dramatic story of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the first new account of this seminal moment in American history in years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-559) and index.
Table of contents: title: The morning after; title: "Take this or nothing"; title: A war of printed words : the national debate begins; title: The Pennsylvania ratifying convention; title: with Delaware, New Jersey, and Georgia; title: "We the people" of Connecticut and Massachusetts; title: The Massachusetts Convention I : the "conversation" begins; title: The Massachusetts Convention II : "; title: with cordiality"; title: A rough road to Richmond : New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maryland, and South Carolina; title: The Virginia Convention I : a battle of giants; title: The Virginia Convention II : under the eyes of heaven; title: On to Poughkeepsie; title: The New York Convention I : a failure of oratory; title: The New York Convention II : in or out?; title: Some final twists : the North Carolina Convention, a meeting in Pennsylvania, and the ratification story draws to an end.