Series Editors Joel M. Sipress and David J. Voelker
List of Figures
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. The Big Question
II. Timeline
III. Historian's Conversations
Position #1: We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident": The Creation of a Democratic Republic
Position #2: An Excess of Democracy: The
Federalist Assault on Popular Self-Government
Position #3: A Republic of Propertied Men: The Constitution in Historical Context
IV. Debating the Question
A. Declarations and Constitutions
1.1 The Declaration of Independence (1776)
1.2 The Articles of Confederation (1777)
1.3
The Constitution of the United States (1787)
1.4 The Constitutions of Virginia (1776) and Pennsylvania (1776)
1.5 The Bill of Rights (1789)
B. Federalist Documents
2.1 Letter of Alexander Hamilton to James Duane (1780)
2.2 Alexander Hamilton, "Conjectures about the Constitution"
(1787)
2.3 James Madison, "Vices of the Political System of the United States" (1787)
2.4 James Madison, "Federalist No. 10" (1787)
2.5 James Madison, "Federalist No. 51" (1788)
C. Documents from Shay's Rebellion
3.1 Daniel Gray, "An Address to the People of the Several Towns in
the County of Hampshire, Now at Arms" (1786) and Thomas Grover, "To the Printer of the Hampshire Herald" (1786)
D. Anti-Federalist Documents
4.1 Essay by Montezuma (1787)
4.2 "Political Creed of Every Federalist" (1787)
4.3 Mercy Otis Warren, "Observations on the New Constitution,
And on the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian Patriot" (1788)
4.4 Virginia Convention Recommends Amendments to the Constitution (1788)
E. Voting Restriction and Slave Laws in the Thirteen Original States
F. Biographies of Key Federalists
6.1 Alexander Hamilton
6.2 James
Madison
V. Additional Resources
Index
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Joel M. Sipress received his PhD in US History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, where he teaches US and Latin American History. He serves as coeditor of the Debating American History series with David J.
Voelker.
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