Description
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Opposition to a Unitary Executive
- Electing Representatives
- Debate on Veto of State Laws
- The New Jersey Plan
- Debate on the New Jersey Plan
- Plan for National Government
- Opposition to the New Jersey Plan
- Debate on Federalism
- Length of Term in Office for Senators
- Debate on State Equality in the Senate
- Majority Rule, the Basic Republican Principle
- Election and Term of Office of the National Executive
- The Judiciary, the Veto, and Separation of Powers
- Appointment of Judges
- Method of Ratification
- Election of the Executive
- First Draft of the Constitution
- Qualifications for Suffrage
- Citizenship for Immigrants
- Executive Veto Power
- Slavery and the Constitution
- Election and Powers of the President
- Opposition to the Constitution
- Election and Power of the President
- Opposition to the Constitution
- Signing the Constitution
PART II | RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION
- Speech of James Wilson
- The Need for Energy in Government
- John DeWitt “Essays I and II”
- Speeches of Patrick Henry
- Amendments Proposed by the Anti-federalists
- Amendments to the Constitution
- Amendments Proposed by the Rhode Island Convention
- Preventing Tyranny Under the New Constitution
- “Centinel,” Number 1
- Address of the Pennsylvania Minority
- Letters from the Federal Farmer
- “Brutus,” Essays I, VI, X-XL and XV
- The Meaning of Government by Consent
- “John DeWitt,” Essay III
- “Cato,” Letters V and VII
- “Brutus,” Essays IV and XVI
- Speeches of Melancton Smith
Appendix I:The Articles of Confederation 1777
Appendix II: The Constitution of the United States of America
Appendix III: Principal Speakers at the Federal Convention of 1787
Annotated Bibliography
Index of Ideas
