San Antonio College Library

Reveals the explosive issues and the political battles which gave birth to the most important document in United States history.

Demonstrates how the American Constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and eventually fragile consensus as James Madison and his cohorts devised a plan to radically alter the balance of governmental power.

A correspondent's report on the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the battle fro a Bill of Rights.

"There is perhaps no more critical juncture in American history than the years in which Americans drafted the federal Constitution, fiercely debated its merits and failings, and adopted it, albeit with reservations. In Contested Conventions, senior historian Melvin Yazawa examines the political and ideological clashes that accompanied the transformation of the country from a loose confederation of states to a more perfect union. Treating the 1787-1789...

Chronicles the making of the United States Constitution and examines the men who created the document.

First translation by Jerry Neeb-Crippen made from a text with "substantial deletions" by the author. Richard Leffler and the author revised the first three chapters of the translation; then Leffler and Kaminski finished the editing. (p. ix).

Chronicles the history of the Constitutional Convention and discusses how the Constitution was developed.