Constitution-Making Looking Backward

How the possibility of an American Revolution was prevented, and the past was securely embodied in a conservative future by the entirely retrospective and short-sighted politics of the "Founding Fathers."

Readings

Assigned

Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 reported by James Madison (Koch ed. 1966)

Suggested

Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Wisconsin Press 1956)

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