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David Robertson

The Original Compromise

What the Constitution's Framers Were Really Thinking

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The eighty-five famous essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay--known collectively as the Federalist Papers--comprise the lens through which we typically view the ideas behind the U.S. Constitution. But we are wrong to do so, writes David Brian Robertson, if we really want to know what the Founders were thinking.In this provocative new account of the framing of the Constitution, Robertson observes that the Federalist Papers represented only one side in a fierce argument that was settled by compromise--in fact, multiple compromises. Drawing on numerous primary sources, Robertson unravels the highly political dynamics that shaped the document. Ham… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-998663-7
  • EAN: 9780199986637
  • Produktnummer: 14481428
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'559 KB

Über den Autor


David Brian Robertson is Curator's Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of The Constitution and America's Destiny and Federalism and the Making of America.

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