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The Anti-Federalist Papers:

And The Constitutional Convention Debates
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Ralph Louis Ketcham
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Penguin, 2003 - Fiction - 406 pages
The complete text of dissenting opinions of those who saw the Constitution as a threat are collected in this volume with Convention debates, commentaries, and lists that cross-reference to its companion Signet Classics volume "The Federalist Papers."
  

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Review: The Anti-Federalist Papers (Mentor)

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This book will knock your socks off. Read Patrick Henry's speech - he hit the nail on the head. Others were equally far sighted in their criticisms. It's amazing to read how the Articles of ... Read full review

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A wonderful, classic rebuttal to the argument that the United States needed a Constitution. It was through the works of these arguments that the Bill of Rights was passed. Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
Arrangement Use and Editing of the Documents
21
Summary of Opposed Arguments in Federalist
27
The Virginia Plan May
35
Debate on Executive Power June
42
Opposition to a Unitary Executive June
47
The New Jersey Plan June
62
Opposition to the New Jersey Plan June
79
PART II
181
THE NEED FOR ENERGY in GOVERNMENT
189
Speeches of Patrick Henry June 5 and 7 1788
199
Amendments Proposed by Massachusetts and Virginia
217
Amendments Proposed by The Rhode Island Convention
225
Address of the Pennsylvania Minority Dec 18 1787
237
Letters from the Federal Fanner I and II Oct 8
256
Brutus Essays I VI XXII and XV Oct 18
269

Debate on State Equality in the Senate June 28July
92
Majority Rule the Basic Republican Principle July 5 13
109
Appointment of Judges July
125
Method of Ratification July
127
First Draft of the Constitution August
134
Qualifications for Suffrage August 7
145
Citizenship for Immigrants August
156
Election and Powers of the President Sept 4 5
169
Opposition to the Constitution Sept 7 10
175
THE MEANING OF GOVERNMENT BY CONSENT
309
Cato Letters V and VII Nov 22 1787 Jan 3 1788
317
Brutus Essays IV and XVI Nov 29 1787
324
Speeches of Melancton Smith June 2027 1788
336
The Articles of Confederation 1777 1781
357
The Constitution of the United States
365
Principal Speakers at the Federal
387
INDEX OF IDEAS
393
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About the author (2003)

Ralph Ketcham is professor emeritus of political science and history and senior research associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University. His other books include Framed for Posterity: The Enduring Philosophy of the Constitution; From Colony to Country: The Revolution in American Thought, 1750-1820; and Presidents above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829.

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