Events surrounding the writing and ratification of the first constitution are recounted and interpreted

The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774-1781

History

Jensen, Merrill

Americas

University of Wisconsin Press

This is the first volume of an ambitious project which, when completed, will offer to the historian of early America the first readily accessible account of the nation’s first elections. Volume I documents the first federal elections in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. This book also covers the Constitution, the Confederation Congress, and federal elections, as well as the Confederation Congress and the First Federal Election Ordinance of September 13th, 1788.    Included in the three-volume set are hundreds of documents which together illuminate the critical political events of the time and the men who forged them. The documents are both official ones—legislative journals, debates, and laws relating to the elections—and unofficial ones, including material from letters, diaries, newspapers, broadsides, and other sources. The subjects treated include the providing for the elections by the Confederation Congress; public and private commentary prior to the elections; and summaries of official and unofficial actions for each of the thirteen original states. The editors have provided biographical sketches of the candidates for election and sketches of the political events of the time in introductions, headnotes, and editorial notes, in order to place the documents in their historical context.    These documents, most of which have been available to scholars only under the most difficult of circumstances, provided the basis for a more complete understanding of the fundamental political acts required to implement the Constitution after its ratification: the election of Representatives, Senators, Electors, and a President—the men who would give shape and meaning to the government created by the Constitution.    Scholars and students of early American history, politics, and law will refer to these volumes frequently, in order to gain a fuller comprehension of the men, the events, and the temper of the times that led to the establishment of our early federal government.

The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Vol. 1 (Volume 1)

A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781-1789. The definitive account of the first years of the United States.

New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781-1789

Random House, Inc.

The American Revolution Within America

New York University Press

The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763-1776

"This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explores popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence. It reconstructs the complex decisions that slowly, often painfully transformed a colonial rebellion into a genuine revolution. Jensen's well-paced narrative never loses sight of the ordinary men and women who confronted the most powerful empire in the world." --T.H. Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

The Making of the American Constitution (The Anvil Series)

Krieger Pub. Co

This book is an account of the first years of the new nation that was born of the American Revolution. Like every other segment of time, the history of the United States from 1781 to 1789 was an integral part of the past in which it was rooted and of the future into which it was growing. It was a time when men believed they could shape the future of the new nation, and since it was also a time in which they disagreed as to what that future should be, they discussed great issues with a forthrightness and realism seldom equaled in political debates. The history of the Confederation is therefore one of great inherent importance for the study of human society if for no other reason that that during it men debated publicly and even violently the question of whether or not people could govern themselves.

The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781-1789

Northeastern Univ Pr

With a foreword by Richard B. Morris; notes, essay on sources, index, 433 plus pages.

The new nation: A history of the United States during the Confederation, 1781-1789

Northeastern University Press

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The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774-1781

The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Vol. 1 (Volume 1)

New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781-1789

The American Revolution Within America

The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763-1776

The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763-1776

The Making of the American Constitution (The Anvil Series)

The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781-1789

The new nation: A history of the United States during the Confederation, 1781-1789