Madisons Hand: Revising The Constitutional Convention,Used

Madisons Hand: Revising The Constitutional Convention,Used

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James Madisons Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the description of the U.S. Constitutions creation. No document provides a more complete record of the deliberations in Philadelphia or depicts the Conventions charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and miraculous triumphs with such narrative force. But how reliable is this account?In an unprecedented investigation that draws on digital technologies and traditional textual analysis to trace Madisons composition, Mary Sarah Bilder reveals that Madison revised the Notes to a far greater extent than previously recognized. The Notes began as a diary of the Conventions proceedings. Madison abandoned the project at a critical juncture, however, and left the Notes incomplete. He did not return to finish them until several years later, largely for Thomas Jefferson. By then, Madisons views were influenced by the new governments challenges and Jeffersons political ideas. Madisons evolving vision of republican government, his Virginia allegiances, his openness to constitutional protection for slavery, his fascination with the finer points of political jockeying, and his depictions of Alexander Hamilton and Charles Pinckney shifted during the writing and rewriting of his account. When the Notes were finally published in 1840, the layers of revision were invisible.Madisons version of events quickly assumed an aura of objectivity, and the Notes molded the narrative of the Constitution. Madisons Hand offers readers a biography of a document that, over two centuries, developed a life and character all its own.

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