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GETTING DOWN TO DETAILS

Page 371-Resolutions Adapted by Convention. Reprinted from: Farrand, Records, vol. 2. Page 374-Draft Constitution. Reprinted from: Farrand, Records, vol. 2. Page 386-Debate on War Power. Reprinted from: Farrand, Records, vol. 2. Page 387-Debate on Treaty Power. Reprinted from: Farrand, Records, vol. 2. Page 390-Objections of Randolph, Mason, and Gerry. Reprinted from: Farrand, Records, vol. 2. Page 392-Franklin, Concluding Appeal for Unanimity. Reprinted from: Farrand, Records, vol. 2.

THE CONSTITUTION

Page 397-Constitution of the United States. Reprinted from: Farrand, Records, vol. 2. 646List of Sources Page 410-Concluding Resolution for Ratification. Reprinted from: Farrand, Records, vol. 2. Page 411-Washington, Letter of Conveyance to Congress. Reprinted from: Farrand, Records, vol. 2.

A MORE PERFECT UNION

Page 415-Madison, Letter to George Washington. Reprinted from: Kaminski, Documentary, vol. 13. Page 417-Hamilton, Conjectures About the Constitution. Reprinted from: Kaminski, Documentary, vol. 13. Page 420-Lee, Letter to George Mason. Reprinted from: Kaminski, Documentary, vol. 13. Page 422-Wilson, Speech on the Constitution. Reprinted from: Kaminski, Documentary, vol. 13. Page 428-Mason, Objections to the Constitution. Reprinted from: Kaminski, Documentary, vol. 13.

THE CASE AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION

Page 435-Smith, Letters from the Federal Farmer I-V Reprinted from: Storing, Herbert J., ed. The Complete Anti-Federalist. Vol. 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

PUBLIUS REPLIES

Pages 481, 485, 492, 497, 505, 513, 519, 524, 529, 537-Hamilton and Madison The Federalist. All selections reprinted from: Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist. Edited by George W. Carey and James McClellan. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001.

THE PROBLEM OF DECLARING RIGHTS

Page 549, 561, 565, 566, 568, 573, 576, 578, 584-Letters between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. All selections reprinted from: Jefferson, Thomas and James Madison. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison 1776-1826. Edited by James Morton Smith. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995.

PROPOSING AMENDMENTS

Page 591-Massachusetts Ratification Convention. Reprinted from: Kaminski, John P. et al., eds. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Vol. 6. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2000. Page 594-Virginia Ratification Convention. Reprinted from: Kaminski, John P. et al., eds. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Vol. 10. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2000. Page 600-New York Ratification Convention. Reprinted from: De Pauw, Linda Grant. The Seventh Pillar. Ithaca: Cornell Univeristy Press, 1966.

FRAMING THE BILL OF RIGHTS

Page 613-Madison, Speech Introducing Amendments in the House of Representatives. Reprinted from: Madison, James. The Writings of James Madison. Vol. 5. Edited by Gaillard Hunt. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904. Page 627-Sherman, Draft Amendments. Reprinted from: Veit, Helen E. et al., eds. Creating the Bill of Rights. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Page 629-Amendments Proposed by the House of Representatives. Reprinted from: Veit et al., Creating. Page 632-Amendments Proposed by the Senate. Reprinted from: Veit et al., Creating. Page 635-Amendments Proposed to the States. Reprinted from: Veit et al., Creating. Page 638-The Bill of Rights, as Ratified by the States. Reprinted from: Tansill, Documents.

1

Lawyers associated with Newgate, an infamous prison of eighteenth-century London.

2

Abbreviation for nemine contradicente (Latin for, literally, “no one speaking against”); unanimously.

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This paragraph was rejected.

4

The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, members of the Iroquois Confederacy that inhabited what became upstate New York.

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John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia from 1771 to 1776.

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John Hancock (1737-1793).

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Samuel Quincy