Constitution-Making Looking Backward
How the possibility of an American Revolution was prevented, and the
past was securely embodied in a conservative future by the entirely
retrospective and short-sighted politics of the "Founding Fathers."
Readings
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Assigned
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 reported by James Madison (Koch ed. 1966)
Suggested
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