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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Anderson, Thornton
• Anderson, Thornton

Titel

Creating the Constitution : The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress

Ort / Verlag

University Park, PA : Penn State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2021]

Link zum Volltext

• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)
• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Creating the Constitution presents a different interpretation of the Convention and the First Congress, derived largely from a close reading of Farrand's Records and the Annals of Congress. Among its special features are a critical perspective on the Framers, an examination of Court Whig influence on the Federalists, the identification of a third group—the state Federalists—between the nationalists and states' righters, and a view of the First Congress as distorting the aims of the Convention