The objective oft his paper is to explore the issue of the opposition to the U.S. Constitution during the period of its ratification. The Constitution was produced by the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787 and altered the existing constitutional framework of the Articles of Confederation in many significant ways. Virtually all aspects of advocacy of the new Constitution have been thoroughly discussed in American historiography for obvious reasons: the Constitution of the United States continues to be the supreme law of the land and represents the oldest written federal constitution still in use. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org
The average American who thinks of our Federal Document only in terms of the Philadelphia Convention...
Degree awarded: Ph.D. Politics. The Catholic University of AmericaAccording to conventional understa...
Book Chapter Barry Cushman, Federalism, in The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution...
The objective oft his paper is to explore the issue of the opposition to the U.S. Constitution durin...
This paper contends that “great man” historiography does an injustice to patriots who took a stand d...
The Constitution is an anachronism, 200 years out of date. Although the Bill of Rights is adequate, ...
It is a small wonder that when delegates were sent to Philadelphia to consider forming a national or...
In this historical examination of American federalism, Edward A. Purcell Jr. refutes the widely acce...
Scholars of the American founding often assume that a substantial part of the Federalist victory in ...
Movements dedicated to making the United States a “Christian nation” have been a recurrent feature i...
This Article explores the revolutionary period and the early national period of American constitutio...
1783, the thirteen American colonies adopted the Articles of Confederation as the governing document...
Tocqueville was the first to notice that political controversy in America tends to become legal cont...
The US Constitution is godless, but not everyone found that satisfactory. This dissertation follows ...
American constitutional federalism emerged from a complex matrix comprised by multiple intellectual,...
The average American who thinks of our Federal Document only in terms of the Philadelphia Convention...
Degree awarded: Ph.D. Politics. The Catholic University of AmericaAccording to conventional understa...
Book Chapter Barry Cushman, Federalism, in The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution...
The objective oft his paper is to explore the issue of the opposition to the U.S. Constitution durin...
This paper contends that “great man” historiography does an injustice to patriots who took a stand d...
The Constitution is an anachronism, 200 years out of date. Although the Bill of Rights is adequate, ...
It is a small wonder that when delegates were sent to Philadelphia to consider forming a national or...
In this historical examination of American federalism, Edward A. Purcell Jr. refutes the widely acce...
Scholars of the American founding often assume that a substantial part of the Federalist victory in ...
Movements dedicated to making the United States a “Christian nation” have been a recurrent feature i...
This Article explores the revolutionary period and the early national period of American constitutio...
1783, the thirteen American colonies adopted the Articles of Confederation as the governing document...
Tocqueville was the first to notice that political controversy in America tends to become legal cont...
The US Constitution is godless, but not everyone found that satisfactory. This dissertation follows ...
American constitutional federalism emerged from a complex matrix comprised by multiple intellectual,...
The average American who thinks of our Federal Document only in terms of the Philadelphia Convention...
Degree awarded: Ph.D. Politics. The Catholic University of AmericaAccording to conventional understa...
Book Chapter Barry Cushman, Federalism, in The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution...