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Creating the Constitution presents a different interpretation of the Convention and the First Congress, derived largely from a close reading of Farrand's Records and the Annals of Congress . Among its special features are a critical perspective on the Framers, an examination of Court Whig influence on the Federalists, the identification of a third group--the state Federalists--between the nationalists and states' righters, and a view of the First Congress as distorting the aims of the Convention.

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• Convention Chronology(p. ix)
• The: Delegates(p. xi)
• Preface(p. xiii)
• 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• 2 Ideas from England(p. 17)
• 3 Political Motivations(p. 43)
• 4 Economic Motivations(p. 85)
• 5 An Anti-Demoscratic Convention?(p. 117)
• 6 The Convention Congress(p. 173)
• Appendixes(p. 207)
• Works Cited(p. 239)
• Index(p. 251)

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Anderson (Univ. of Maryland) has meticulously researched the divisions of the constitutional convention and first Congress to support two premises: that the convention was composed of three contending groups--nationalists, localist state-sovereignty men, and state federalists--with the latter prevailing, and that the first Congress was dominated by nationalists who distorted the intentions of the convention. The core of the study supports the first premise by an informed and convincing analysis of debates over eight major issues. The sophistication of this internal analysis and that of the first Congress is not matched by the book's larger conceptual framework and conclusions. Given the quality of scholarship on this period over the past quarter century, discussion of both delegate motivation and intellectual context was disappointing. James Reist Stoner's Common Law and Liberal Theory (CH, Dec'92) and Joyce Oldham Appleby's Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination (CH, Oct'92) are useful and cross-cutting correctives. Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seclorum (CH, May'86) remains the most comprehensive political-philosophical framework for understanding the constitutional founding. Advanced undergraduate through faculty. E. J. Eisenach; University of Tulsa

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Thornton Anderson is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Maryland and author of several books, including Russian Political Though t (1967) and Brooks Adams: Constructive Conservative (1951).