Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Ideologies: The American Constitution: a revolutionary interpretation / Stanley N. Katz
  • The Constitution of the thinking revolutionary / Ralph Lerner
  • Interests and disinterestedness in the making of the Constitution / Gordon S. Wood
  • pt. 2. Issues: Shay's Rebellion and the ratification of the federal Constitution in Massachusetts / Richard D. Brown
  • Money, credit, and Federalist political economy / Janet A. Riesman
  • The practical sphere of a republic: James Madison, the Constitutional Conventions, and the emergence of revolutionary federalism / Lance Banning
  • Slavery and the Constitutional Convention: making a covenant with death / Paul Finkelman
  • James Madison and visions of American nationality in the confederation period: a regional perspective / Drew R. McCoy
  • pt. 3. Aftermath: The structure of politics at the accession of George Washington / Jack N. Rakove
  • The persistence of antifederalism after 1789 / Richard E. Ellis
  • Religious dimensions of the early America state / Stephen Botein
  • Epilogue: A roof without walls: the dilemma of American national identity / John M. Murrin.