Constitution-Making Looking Backward

How the possibility of an American Revolution was prevented, and the past was securely embodied in a conservative future by the entirely retrospective and short-sighted politics of the "Founding Fathers."

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Assigned

Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 reported by James Madison (Koch ed. 1966)

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