Framers of the Constitution /
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
National Archives and Records Administration,
1986.
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| Series: | World constitutions illustrated.
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated |
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Table of Contents:
- Historical background: Introduction
- Aims of the founders
- Shortcomings of the Confederation
- Mount Vernon and Annapolis meetings
- Delegates
- Convention proceedings
- Approved document
- Ratification, federalists vs. antifederalists
- First presidential election
- Amending the Constitution
- Biographical sketches: Political experience
- Occupations
- Geographic and educational background
- Longevity and family life
- Post-convention careers
- Abraham Baldwin (Georgia)
- Richard Bassett (Delaware)
- Gunning Bedford, Jr. (Delaware)
- John Blair (Virginia)
- William Blount (North Carolina)
- David Brearly (New Jersey)
- Jacob Broom (Delaware)
- Pierce Butler (South Carolina)
- Daniel Carroll (Maryland)
- George Clymer (Pennsylvania)
- William Richardson Davie (North Carolina)
- Jonathan Dayton (New Jersey)
- John Dickinson (Delaware)
- Oliver Ellsworth (Connecticut)
- William Few (Georgia)
- Thomas Fitzsimons (Pennsylvania)
- Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania)
- Elbridge Gerry (Massachusetts)
- Nicholas Gilman (New Hampshire)
- Nathaniel Gorham (Massachusetts)
- Alexander Hamilton (New York)
- William C. Houston (New Jersey)
- William Houston (Georgia)
- Jared Ingersoll (Pennsylvania)
- Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer (Maryland)
- William Samuel Johnson (Connecticut)
- Rufus King (Massachusetts)
- John Langdon (New Hampshire)
- John Lansing, Jr. (New York)
- William Livingston (New Jersey)
- James McClurg (Virginia)
- James McHenry (Maryland)
- James Madison (Virginia)
- Alexander Martin (North Carolina)
- Luther Martin (Maryland)
- George Mason (Virginia)
- John Francis Mercer (Maryland)
- Thomas Mifflin (Pennsylvania)
- Gouverneur Morris (Pennsylvania)
- Robert Morris (Pennsylvania)
- William Paterson (New Jersey)
- William Leigh Pierce (Georgia)
- Charles Pinckney (South Carolina)
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (South Carolina)
- Edmund Randolph (Virginia)
- George Read (Delaware)
- John Rutledge (South Carolina)
- Roger Sherman (Connecticut)
- Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr. (North Carolina)
- Caleb Strong (Massachusetts)
- George Washington (Virginia)
- Hugh Williamson (North Carolina)
- James Wilson (Pennsylvania)
- George Wythe (Virginia)
- Robert Yates (New York)
- Constitution and its history : Text of the Constitution and amendments
- History of the document
- Further research in the national archives
- Suggested reading
- Art and picture credits
- Index.