Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introductory Essay Baldwin, Abraham; Bassett, Richard; Bedford, Gunning Jr.; Blair, John; Blount, William; Brearley, David; Broom, Jacob; Butler, Pierce Carroll, Daniel; Clymer, George Davie, William Richardson; Dayton, Johnathan Dickinson Ellsworth, Oliver Few, William; Fitzsimmons, Thomas; Franklin, Benjamin Gerry, Elbridge; Gilman, Nicholas; Gorham, Nathaniel Hamilton Houston, William Alexander; Houstoun, William Churchill Ingersoll, Jared Jenifer, Daniel of St. Thomas; Johnson, William Samuel King, Rufus Lansing, John Livingston McClurg, James William; McHenry, James; Madison, James Jr.; Martin, Alexander; Martin, Luther; Mason, George; Mercer, John Francis Mifflin; Morris, Gouverneur; Morris, Robert; Pierce, William Leigh Patterson, William; Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth; Randolph, Edmund; Read, George Rutledge Sherman, Roger John; Spaight, Richard Dobbs; Strong, Caleb Washington, George; Williamson, Hugh; Wilson, James; Wythe, George Yates, Robert Appendix A: The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union Appendix B: The Constitution of the United States Selected Annotated Bibliography
Examines the lives and experiences of the individual's involved in the debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Joseph C. Morton is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, at Northwestern Illinois University in Chicago. He is the author of The American Revolution, a volume in the Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of 1500-1900 (Greenwood, 2003).
This resource offers alphabetically arranged biographies of the 55
delegates to the Constitutional Convention….The subjects' early
lives and careers are described, but the focus is on the political
positions that each delegate held on a number of issues, including
the tensions between Southern and Northern states on slavery, trade
policies, navigation laws, the divisions between large and small
states, and the differences between those favoring states' rights
versus those for a strong national government. This well-documented
book will help students understand how these individuals were
influenced by the questions of the day and gain knowledge of the
early history of the U.S. The appendixes contain the Articles of
Confederation and the Constitution of the United States.
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[U]ses biography to consider the backgrounds, underlying
influences, and political and social pressures of the shapers of
the Constitution, providing invaluable information on its
underlying influences.
*The Bookwatch*
Over the course of 16 weeks, delegates to the Constitutional
Convention of 1787 revised and amended the Articles of
Confederation in order to create the new U.S. Constitution. This
alphabetically arranged volume presents concise biographies of the
Convention's 55 delegates. Each entry describes an individual's
participation in the deliberations, with an emphasis on his
position in the Great Debate between proportional versus equal
representation for states in the legislature.
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