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Bilder, Mary Sarah. "The Soul of a Free Government: The Influence of John Adams’s A Defence on the Constitutional Convention." Journal of American Constitutional History 1, no. 1 (2023): 1–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.59015/jach.axbf8835.

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Contrary to the conventional modern view, John Adams’s A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787) was deeply influential on the Constitutional Convention. Adams’s constitutional system, though not original with him, provided a useful synthesis that emphasized balance as a working principle, checks as the operational corollary, and institutional structures reflecting the many, the few, and the one. Through the contemporaneous serialization in the Pennsylvania Mercury beginning May 11, 1787, this system and Adams’s conceptual terminology were read by key

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Jaconelli, Joseph. "The nature of constitutional convention." Legal Studies 19, no. 1 (1999): 24–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121x.1999.tb00084.x.

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The term ‘constitutional convention’ tends to be attached indiscriminately to any regularity of conduct that is observed in the process of government. It is here argued, however, that constitutional conventions as properly understood are social rules which govern the relations between political parties or the institutions of government. Furthermore, this term is to be confined only to those social rules that are constitutional in character. Intra- party standards of conduct, in particular, have wrongly been accorded the status of constitutional convention. These considerations, together with a

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Elliott, Mark. "Parliamentary sovereignty and the new constitutional order: legislative freedom, political reality and convention." Legal Studies 22, no. 3 (2002): 340–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121x.2002.tb00197.x.

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Although the constitutional reform programme undertaken by the Blair administration is formally consistent with the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, it is clear that the human rights and devolution legislation, in particular, significantly alter the political and constitutional environment within which Parliament's legislative powers are exercised. This paper considers whether it is meaningfiul, within this new constitutional setting, to adhere to the traditional notion of sovereignty. It is argued that the disparity between a Parliament whose powers are formally unlimited yet increasing

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Bilder, Mary Sarah. "The Ordeal and the Constitution." New England Quarterly 91, no. 1 (2018): 129–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00663.

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Bernard Bailyn's The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson demonstrated that losers provide a method to recover the historical reality of people who did not know which political and constitutional arguments would ultimately win. Applying this insight, this essay argues that the meanings ascribed to “The Constitution” arose after the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

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Gelman, David A. "Ideology and Participation: Examining the Constitutional Convention of 1787." Political Research Quarterly 71, no. 3 (2018): 546–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1065912917749751.

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This article looks at the effect of ideology on delegate participation at the Federal Convention of 1787. Making use of an original data set on delegate verbosity and delegate speeches at the Constitutional Convention, analysis reveals that ideologically extreme Convention delegates were more likely to participate at the Convention. This leads to two conclusions. First, ideology affected delegate participation in a meaningful way. Second, claims made about the intent of the writers of the Constitution based on Convention records are biased in favor of ideologically extreme Convention delegates

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Marzuki, M. Laica. "Konstitusi dan Konstitusionalisme." Jurnal Konstitusi 7, no. 4 (2016): 001. http://dx.doi.org/10.31078/jk741.

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PENDAHULUANThe Constitution of The United States of America yang ditandatangani39 delegasi di kala tanggal 17 September 1787 di Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, tempat terselenggaranya Constitutional Convention, mendorong lahirnya constitutional states (negara – negara konstitusi) di beberapa kawasan dunia, termasuk negara – negara monarki, yang dikenal dengan penamaan: constitutional monarch.Dalam perkembangannya beberapa constitutional state menyadari bahwa konstitusi negara – negara dimaksud kurang memuat pengaturan hal pembatasan penguasa dan pengakuan hak – hak sipil rakyat banyak di dalamnya.

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Reck, Andrew J. "The Philosophical Background of the American Constitution(s)." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 19 (March 1985): 273–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135824610000463x.

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The Constitution of the United States was constructed by men influenced by fundamental ideas of what a republic should be. These ideas hark back to the ancient philosophers and historians, and were further articulated and developed in modern times. From time to time scholars have sought to collect and reprint selections from the classical, biblical, and modern sources upon which the Founding Fathers fed. Remarkably, however, the best anthology of these sources to understand the republican idea that undergirds the Federal Constitution was prepared on the eve of the Constitutional Convention by

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Reck, Andrew J. "The Philosophical Background of the American Constitution(s)." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 19 (March 1985): 273–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0957042x00004636.

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The Constitution of the United States was constructed by men influenced by fundamental ideas of what a republic should be. These ideas hark back to the ancient philosophers and historians, and were further articulated and developed in modern times. From time to time scholars have sought to collect and reprint selections from the classical, biblical, and modern sources upon which the Founding Fathers fed. Remarkably, however, the best anthology of these sources to understand the republican idea that undergirds the Federal Constitution was prepared on the eve of the Constitutional Convention by

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Dougherty, Keith. "Slavery in the Constitution: Why the Lower South Occasionally Succeeded at the Constitutional Convention." Political Research Quarterly 73, no. 3 (2019): 638–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1065912919848843.

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The Lower South’s successes at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 contributed to a constitution that prohibited federal interference with the slave trade until 1808, guaranteed fugitive slaves would be returned to their masters, and prevented export tariffs. We explain why the Lower South occasionally succeeded on sectional issues at the convention using a multiple-dimensional model of sincere voting, estimated using a new dataset of delegate votes, multiple imputation, and optimal classification. We argue that mixing sectional issues with powers of the federal government made the Lower Sou

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Gienapp, Jonathan. "Written Constitutionalism, Past and Present." Law and History Review 39, no. 2 (2021): 321–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248020000528.

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Debates over constitutional originalism almost always center on meaning. Questions are typically focused, concentrated on the meaning of particular constitutional clauses at the moment of their inception: the Commerce Clause in 1787, the Second Amendment in 1791, or the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868. Given the prevalence of these investigations, theoretical and methodological debates over how to recover original constitutional meaning are concentrated on either the kind of meaning that should be targeted—original public meaning, original intended meaning, or original legal meaning—or how that m

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Constitutional Convention (1788)"

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Fogarty, Peter John. "The Constitutional Convention of 1787 : the issues of representation, slavery and economics /." Full-text of dissertation on the Internet (423 KB), 2009. http://www.lib.jmu.edu/general/etd/2009/Honors/Fogarty_Peter/fogartpj_honors_11-11-2009_01.pdf.

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Highkin, Emily. "Delegate Voting at the 1787 Constitutional Convention: The Entanglement of Economic Interests and the Great Compromise." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1582396815051673.

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Lecoq-Pujade, Benjamin. "La naissance de l'autorité de la représentation nationale en droit constitutionnel français (1789-1794)." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://scd-rproxy.u-strasbg.fr/login?url=https://www.dalloz-bibliotheque.fr/pvurl.php?r=http%3A%2F%2Fdallozbndpro-pvgpsla.dalloz-bibliotheque.fr%2Ffr%2Fpvpage2.asp%3Fpuc%3D5442%26nu%3D238%26selfsize%3D1.

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La question contemporaine de la place et du rôle du Parlement au sein des institutions françaises interroge la nature de l’autorité traditionnellement reconnue à la représentation nationale. Cette recherche a pour objet d’analyser les origines révolutionnaires de ce paradigme du droit constitutionnel français consistant à voir dans l’assemblée des représentants de la Nation le siège d’une autorité politique trouvant sa source dans l’expression représentative de la volonté générale.La Révolution française est longtemps apparue comme le moment matriciel du droit constitutionnel et du constitutio

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Dendena, Francesco. "« Nos places maudites » : le mouvement feuillant entre la fuite de Varennes et la chute de la monarchie (1791-1792)." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0152.

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La recherche a pour but d'étudier le processus politique qui conduit à la marginalisation et la défaite du courant modéré pendant la Révolution française, Elle voudrait le faire en travaillant sur le mouvement feuillant à la Législative, en le considérant comme un élément décisif pour comprendre l'effondrement du nouveau régime tel qui avait été conçu par la Constituante, Cette recherche voudrait esquisser une interprétation des dynamiques révolutionnaires pendant la monarchie constitutionnelle pour comprendre pourquoi le mouvement modéré et constitutionnel a perdu sa propre légitimité, révolu

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Books on the topic "Constitutional Convention (1788)"

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Byrd, Robert O. Decision at Richmond, June 1788: A documentary drama of the Constitutional Ratification Convention in Virginia. World Without War Publications, 1986.

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Convention, South Carolina. Journal of the Convention of South Carolina which ratified the Constitution of the United States, May 23, 1788. United States Constitution Bicentennial Commission of South Carolina, 1988.

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Pennsylvania, Historical Society of. Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution 1787-1788. Liberty Fund, 2011.

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McMaster, John Bach, 1852-1932, ed and Stone, Frederick D. (Frederick Dawson), 1841-1897, joint ed, eds. Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution 1787-1788. Liberty Fund, 2011.

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Caplan, Russell L. Constitutional brinksmanship: Amending the Constitution by national convention. Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Collier, Christopher. Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787. Random House, 1986.

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1751-1836, Madison James, ed. Notes of debates in the Federal Convention of 1787. Norton, 1987.

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McPhillips, Martin. The Constitutional Convention. Silver Burdett, 1985.

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McPhillips, Martin. The Constitutional Convention. Silver Burdett, 1985.

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Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia: The story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September, 1787. Book-of-the-Month Club, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "Constitutional Convention (1788)"

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Slonim, Shlomo. "Madison and the Threat of a Second Constitutional Convention." In Forging the American Nation, 1787-1791. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95163-5_8.

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Slonim, Shlomo. "The Constitutional Convention: Nation Over State Within a Federal Framework." In Forging the American Nation, 1787-1791. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95163-5_3.

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Barclay, Katie, and François Soyer. "Patrick Henry (1736–1799), Shall Liberty or Empire be Sought? a Speech Given on 5 June 1788 at the Virginia Convention to Ratify the Constitution of the United States." In Emotions in Europe 1517–1914. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003175513-33.

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"Constitution of the United States (Constitutional Convention, 1787–1788)." In African American Studies Center. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.33567.

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Nann, John B., and Morris L. Cohen. "Constitutional Law, 1780s." In The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History. Yale University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300118537.003.0005.

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This chapter discusses sources for information about the United States and state constitutions; constitutional conventions, especially the Constitutional Convention of 1787; the ratification of the U.S. Constitution; and the ratification of the Bill of Rights and other amendments. Although the Constitution of the United States is extremely important to American law and legal history, researchers should keep in mind that it is not the only constitution in play, nor was it the first. Even before the Declaration of Independence was promulgated on July 4, 1776, states had begun to work on their ow

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Dalzell, Robert F., and Lee Baldwin Dalzell. "At Home and Away, 1788-1799." In George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195121148.003.0009.

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Abstract In february 1787, in the midst of considering whether to attend the constitutional convention called for later that year in Philadelphia, Washington wrote his mother a longish letter about her future. Relations between the two had never been smooth. Mary Washington continued to live in Fredericksburg but managed her affairs badly and now was suffering from cancer. Over the years Washington had done what he could, often with thinly veiled impatience, to help keep her domestic establishment afloat.

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"Samuel Adams 1722–1803." In Milestone Documents of American Leaders. Schlager Group Inc., 2009. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306047.book-part-004.

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Samuel Adams was born in Boston on September 16, 1722. He entered the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1765. He became a member of the Continental Congress in 1774, signed the Declaration of Independence, and was an architect of the Articles of Confederation. He helped draft Massachusetts’s 1780 Constitution. Upon retiring from Congress in 1782, he served as a state senator until becoming Massachusetts lieutenant governor in 1789. He attended the 1788 Massachusetts convention that ratified the proposed U.S. Constitution. Adams became governor upon the death of John Hancock in 1793 and

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Atkins, Jonathan M. "“May the great ‘I am’ bless and protect you”." In Andrew Jackson. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191886812.003.0003.

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Abstract This chapter focuses on Jackson’s first decade in Nashville. Arriving in the rough frontier town in 1788, Jackson built a fortune through his law practice, trade, and land speculation. He became one of the region’s leading men despite a controversial marriage after supposedly stealing Rachel Donelson Robards from her husband. Following North Carolina’s cession of its western lands to the federal government, Jackson emerged as a political lieutenant for Territorial Governor William Blount. As a delegate to Tennessee’s state constitutional convention, Jackson’s votes revealed his commit

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Witte, John, Joel A. Nichols, and Richard W. Garnett. "Forging the First Amendment Religion Clauses." In Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197587614.003.0005.

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This chapter traces the actions on religion and religious freedom in the Continental Congress (1774-1789), the United States Constitutional Convention and ratification debates (1787-1789), the First Congress (1789), and the ratification debates over the Bill of Rights that followed. The chapter parses in detail what each of these national bodies said about religious freedom in the surviving records, analyzes each of the 25 drafts of the religion clauses crafted between 1787 and 1789 and the surviving debates about them, and then analyzes what is clear and not so clear in the final words of the

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Lenowitz, Jeffrey A. "The Invention of Constitutional Ratification." In Constitutional Ratification without Reason. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852346.003.0003.

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Chapter 3 explores the first instances of constitutional ratification. Primarily, this involves focusing on the invention of the procedure in 1770s Massachusetts and the Berkshire Constitutionalists, a group of revolutionaries in the Western part of the state who first advocated for ratification and produced what is still its most comprehensive justification. The chapter also discusses the efforts of the New York Mechanick’s union, who led a similar but unsuccessful attempt to utilize ratification in New York during the same period. Both the Massachusetts and New York experience involved a rat

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Conference papers on the topic "Constitutional Convention (1788)"

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Corrales, Luz, and Doreen Dacilas. "Influence at 1787 constitutional convention." In 2015 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isecon.2015.7119907.

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Cole, Nicholas, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, and Grace Mallon. "Quill: A Framework for Constructing Negotiated Texts - With a Case Study on the US Constitutional Convention of 1787." In 2017 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jcdl.2017.7991562.

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Reports on the topic "Constitutional Convention (1788)"

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Grubb, Farley. The U.S. Constitution and Monetary Powers: An Analysis of the 1787 Constitutional Convention and Constitutional Transformation of the Nation's Monetary System Emerged. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w11783.

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