"New digital technologies and traditional historical investigation suggest that James Madison did not finish his famous Notes until after the Convention. The Notes are the most important, and most misunderstood, account of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. This biography of the Notes follows Madison as he created and then repeatedly revised a remarkable manuscript of American history. Originally a diary kept in part for the absent Thomas Jefferson,...

A collection of 85 articles published under the pseudonym Publius during the years 1787 and 1788 to promote ratification of the United States Constitution. This edition features the eighteenth-century text, with notes, synopsis, and index, as well as copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.--

The dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and others who saw the Constitution as a threat to our hard-won rights and liberties. 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.