The Essential Debate on the Constitution - by Bernard Bailyn & Robert Allison (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The threat of foreign and domestic corruption; the balance of power between the federal government and the states and the controversial role of the Supreme Court; the danger of an unrestrained president and the potential remedy of impeachment. During the contest to ratify the Constitution America's founding generation wrestled with key questions and challenges that continue to test our nation today, and their original arguments still have much to teach us. Here are more than sixty newspaper articles, pamphlets, speeches, and private letters from the debate by more than forty writers, including the essential Federalist essays of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton and the insightful, often prophetic Antifederalist writings of "Brutus" and the "Federalist Farmer"--Back cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Return to the nation's founding to rediscover the dramatic original debates--on presidential power, religious liberty, foreign corruption, and more--that still shape our world today</b> <p/>When the Constitutional Convention adjourned on September 17, 1787, few Americans anticipated the document that emerged from its secret proceedings. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other framers had fashioned something radically new, a strong national government with broad powers. A fierce storm of argument soon broke out in advance of the state ratifying conventions that would decide the new plan's fate as Federalist supporters, Antifederalist opponents, and seekers of a middle ground praised, condemned, challenged, and analyzed the new Constitution. Here, in chronological order, are more than sixty newspaper articles, pamphlets, speeches, and private letters written or delivered during this ratification debate. Along with familiar figures such as Madison, Hamilton, and Patrick Henry, are dozens of lesser-known but equally engaged and passionate participants. The most famous writings of the period--especially the key <i>Federalist</i> essays--are placed in context alongside the arguments of insightful Antifederalists such as Brutus and the Federal Farmer. Crucial issues quickly take center stage--the need for a Bill of Rights, the controversial compromises over slavery and the slave trade, whether religious tests should be imposed--and on questions that continue to engage and divide Americans: the relationship between the national government and the states, the dangers of unchecked presidential power and the remedy of impeachment, the proper role of the Supreme Court, fears of foreign and domestic corruption, and the persistent challenge of making representative government work in a large and diverse nation.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Bernard Bailyn</b> is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and the author of numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution</i> and <i>Voyagers to the West</i> and the National Book Award-winning <i>The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson</i>.<b> Robert J. Allison</b> is professor of history at Suffolk University in Boston and also teaches at the Harvard Extension School. Allison is the author of <i>The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World</i>, <i>Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779-1820</i>, <i>A Short History of Boston</i>, and <i>The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction</i>.
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