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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Farrand, Max, 1869-1945. Framing of the Constitution of the United States. New Haven, Yale University press; [etc., etc.] 1913 (OCoLC)654559052 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Max Farrand; Yale University Press, |
ISBN: | 0300004451 9780300004458 1587980541 9781587980541 0300000790 9780300000795 |
OCLC Number: | 498174 |
Notes: | Includes index. This book is founded upon the records of the Federal convention (New Haven, Yale university press, 1911. 3 vols.) edited by the author. cf. Pref. |
Description: | ix, 281 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | The Calling of the Federal Convention -- The Convention and Its Members -- The Defects of the Confederation -- The Organization of the Convention -- The Virginia Plan -- The New Jersey Plan -- The Great Compromise -- After the Compromise -- The Committee of Detail -- Details and Compromises -- The Election of the President -- Finishing the Work -- The Completed Constitution -- Appendix: The Articles of Confederation -- The Virginia Plan -- The New Jersey Plan -- The Constitution of the United States -- The Amendments to the Constitution -- index. |
Series Title: | A Yale paperbound, Y-53 |
Responsibility: | by Max Farrand. |
Abstract:
A classic in American constitutional history, Max Farrand's famous account of the Federal Convention presents a vivid analysis of the conditions, the convictions, and the men who framed the Constitution of the United States. This basic work clarifies the intentions of the Founding Fathers and sheds light on the many issues of 1787 that are of vital importance today.
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