Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787Includes a complete copy of the Constitution. Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. "The best popular history of the Constitutional Convention available."--Library Journal |
Contents
America in 1787 | 18 |
The Mind of James Madison | 33 |
The Unbelievable George | 40 |
Madison Plans a Government | 58 |
Alexander Hamilton and the British | 76 |
The Puzzle of Charles Pinckney | 87 |
Men Manners and Rules | 102 |
THE LARGE STATES AND | 117 |
The Western Lands | 205 |
Another Tradeoff | 223 |
Balancing Act | 243 |
Curing the Republican Disease | 259 |
James Wilson Democratic | 274 |
In the Shadow of Washington | 289 |
Elbridge Gerrys | 312 |
George Mason and | 332 |
William Paterson Picks a Fight | 136 |
The Battle Joined | 146 |
Luther Martin and a Lost | 155 |
The Most Serious | 164 |
NORTH AND SOUTH | 181 |
The Most Remarkable | 351 |
The Articles of Confederation | 365 |
The Constitution of the United States | 375 |
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Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 Christopher Collier Limited preview - 2007 |
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