Creating the Constitution

The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress

Thornton Anderson

• Éditeur: Penn State University Press
• Année: 1993
• ISBN:
  9780271071312
• Sujet: Politics & International Relations
• Sous-sujet: Constitutions

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.