Original Compromise: What the Constitution's Framers Were Really Thinking

by David Brian Robertson

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199796297

ISBN13:9780199796298

Release Date:January 2013

Publisher:Oxford Univ PR

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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