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v. 1 ISBN 9780870201530
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This documentary series is a research tool of remarkable power, an unrivaled reference work for historical and legal scholars, librarians, and students of the Constitution. The volumes are encyclopedic, consisting of manuscript and printed documents-contemporary newspapers, broadsides, and pamphlets-compiled from hundreds of sources, copiously annotated, thoroughly indexed, and often accompanied by microfiche supplements.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen has noted that The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution series "will be of enduring value centuries hence" and described it as "one of the most interesting documentary publications we have ever had." The American Bar Association Journal has stated, "Each new volume now fills another vital part of the mosaic of national history."
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v. 2 ISBN 9780870202186
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Commentaries on the Constitution: Public and Private, asix volume set, is an integral but autonomous part of the Ratification series. The documents in this volume present the day-by-day regional and national debates over the Constitution that took place in newspapers, magazines, broadsides, pamphlets, and private letters. This volume continues the almost daily examination of the newly proposed Constitution. This documentary series is a research tool of remarkable power, an unrivaled reference work for historical and legal scholars, librarians, and students of the Constitution. The volumes are encyclopedic, consisting of manuscript and printed documents-contemporary newspapers, broadsides, and pamphlets-compiled from hundreds of sources, copiously annotated, thoroughly indexed, and often accompanied by microfiche supplements.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen has noted that The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution series "will be of enduring value centuries hence" and described it as "one of the most interesting documentary publications we have ever had." The American Bar Association Journal has stated, "Each new volume now fills another vital part of the mosaic of national history."
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v. 3 ISBN 9780870202285
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Commentaries on the Constitution: Public and Private, a six volume set, is an integral but autonomous part of the Ratification series. The documents in this volume present the day-by-day regional and national debates over the Constitution that took place in newspapers, magazines, broadsides, pamphlets, and private letters. This volume covers the period from 18 December 1787 to 31 January 1788, when news that Delaware and Pennsylvania had ratified the Constitution was spread; New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut adopted the Constitution; and a strongly divided Massachusetts Convention was in the midst of debating the merits of the new form of government. This documentary series is a research tool of remarkable power, an unrivaled reference work for historical and legal scholars, librarians, and students of the Constitution. The volumes are encyclopedic, consisting of manuscript and printed documents-contemporary newspapers, broadsides, and pamphlets-compiled from hundreds of sources, copiously annotated, thoroughly indexed, and often accompanied by microfiche supplements.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen has noted that The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution series "will be of enduring value centuries hence" and described it as "one of the most interesting documentary publications we have ever had." The American Bar Association Journal has stated, "Each new volume now fills another vital part of the mosaic of national history."
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v. 4 ISBN 9780870202452
Description
Commentaries on the Constitution: Public and Private, a six volume series, is an integral but autonomous part of the Ratification series. The documents in this volume present the day-by-day regional and national debates over the Constitution that took place in newspapers, magazines, broadsides, pamphlets, and private letters. This volume covers the months of February and March, 1788. This documentary series is a research tool of remarkable power, an unrivaled reference work for historical and legal scholars, librarians, and students of the Constitution. The volumes are encyclopedic, consisting of manuscript and printed documents-contemporary newspapers, broadsides, and pamphlets-compiled from hundreds of sources, copiously annotated, thoroughly indexed, and often accompanied by microfiche supplements.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen has noted that The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution series "will be of enduring value centuries hence" and described it as "one of the most interesting documentary publications we have ever had." The American Bar Association Journal has stated, "Each new volume now fills another vital part of the mosaic of national history."
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v. 5 ISBN 9780870202759
Description
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution is a research tool of remarkable power. The volumes are encyclopedic, consisting of manuscript and printed documents compiled from hundreds of sources, thoroughly annotated and indexed. The Documentary History is an unrivalled reference work for historical and legal scholars, librarians, and students of the United States Constitution. This volume of Commentaries contains approximately 110 documents. Correspondence consists of forty-two letters, including thirty-three letters by Federalists, five by Antifederalists, and four by diplomats (two French, one Spanish, and one English). About forty-five individual, non-serialized newspaper items also are printed in this volume, including the dissent of three members of the Massachusetts Convention, a Federalist allegorical piece entitled New Breeches, Elbridge Gerry's response to the Maryland Landholder, and the amendments proposed in the Maryland Convention.
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v. 6 ISBN 9780870202780
Description
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution is a research tool of remarkable power. The volumes are encyclopedic, consisting of manuscript and printed documents compiled from hundreds of sources, thoroughly annotated and indexed. The Documentary History is an unrivalled reference work for historical and legal scholars, librarians, and students of the United States Constitution. This volume of Commentaries contains approximately 110 documents. Correspondence consists of forty-two letters, including thirty-three letters by Federalists, five by Antifederalists, and four by diplomats (two French, one Spanish, and one English). About forty-five individual, non-serialized newspaper items also are printed in this volume, including the dissent of three members of the Massachusetts Convention, a Federalist allegorical piece entitled New Breeches, Elbridge Gerry's response to the Maryland Landholder, and the amendments proposed in the Maryland Convention.
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