Madison's Hand : : Revising the Constitutional Convention /

Madison's Hand : : Revising the Constitutional Convention / / Mary Sarah Bilder.

No document depicts the Constitutional Convention's charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and miraculous triumphs with the force of Madison's Notes. But how reliable is this account? Drawing on digital technologies and textual analysis, Mary Sarah Bilder reveals that Madison revis...

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Bilder, Mary Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 18 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • About Madison's Notes
  • Introduction
  • I. Notes Before the Constitutional Convention
  • 1. The Genre of Legislative Diaries
  • 2. The Practice of Working Notes
  • II. Learning to Keep a Conventional Diary
  • 3. The Success of the Opening Days
  • 4. Struggling with Speeches
  • III. Recording the Constitutional Convention
  • 5. An Account of Failed Strategies
  • 6. Acquiring a New Role
  • IV. Abandoning the Notes
  • 7. The Complexity of Drafting
  • 8. The Convention's Changing Relevance
  • V. Completing the Notes
  • 9. Correcting and Revising the Notes
  • 10. The Infl uence of Mr. Jefferson
  • Conclusion
  • The Evidence. Abbreviations. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index
  • The Evidence
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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