From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constitution

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American Enterprise Institute, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 213 pages
This book tells how the Bill of Rights was amended to the Constitution and explains how that addition completed the Constitution by clarifying the status of the American people.
 

Contents

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15
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
29
THE POLITICS OF RATIFICATION
36
36
71
CONGRESSMAN MADISON
75
REFLECTIONS ON PART
96
6
105
Elbridge Gerrys Rancor
112
The AntiFederalists Accuse
120
KILL THE OPPOSITION EVERY WHERE Where to Place the Amendments 141
141
FISHERIES POST ROADS AND RATIFICATIONS
154
REFLECTIONS ON PART THREE
176
NOTES
185
INDEX
207
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
213
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