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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Contents
Part I: “Our Case May Become Desperate”
Chapter One: A Nation in Jeopardy
Chapter Two: America in 1787
Chapter Three: The Mind of James Madison
Chapter Four: The Unbelievable George Washington
Chapter Five: Madison Plans a Government
Chapter Six: Alexander Hamilton and the British Model
Chapter Seven: The Puzzle of Charles Pinckney
Chapter Eight: Men, Manners, and Rules: The Convention Begins
Part II: The Large States and the Small
Chapter Nine: Roger Sherman and the Art of Compromise
Chapter Ten: William Paterson Picks a Fight
Chapter Eleven: The Battle Joined
Chapter Twelve: Luther Martin and a Lost Opportunity
Chapter Thirteen: “The Most Serious and Threatening Excitement ”
Part III: North and South
Chapter Fourteen: A New Alliance
Chapter Fifteen: The Western Lands
Chapter Sixteen: Another Trade-off
Part IV: The Question of Power
Chapter Seventeen: Balancing Act
Chapter Eighteen: Curing the Republican Disease
Chapter Nineteen: James Wilson, Democratic Nationalist
Chapter Twenty: In the Shadow of Washington
Chapter Twenty-One: Elbridge Gerry’s War Against the Army
Chapter Twenty-Two: George Mason and the Rights of Man
Chapter Twenty-Three: “The Most Remarkable Work ”
Appendix A: The Articles of Confederation
Appendix B: The Constitution of the United States
Citations to Sources
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
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