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001			ocn176952118
003			OCoLC
005			20251028093103.0
008			080707s2009 nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2008028841
035			_a(Sirsi) i9781400065707
035			_a(Sirsi) i9781400065707
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020			_a9781400065707 (alk. paper)
020			_a1400065704 (alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aKF 4510 _b.B44 2009
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100	1		_aBeeman, Richard R.
245	1	0	_aPlain, honest men : _bthe making of the American Constitution / _cRichard Beeman.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c2009.
300			_axxvii, 514 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [447]-448) and index.
505	0		_aPrincipal characters -- The Constitutional Convention of 1787: a chronology -- The crisis -- The indispensable men of the Convention -- The delay that produced a revolution -- The Convention opens for business -- A high-stakes gamble -- "We the people" or "We the states"? Creating the American Congress -- Imagining the American presidency -- Counterattack -- "We are now at full stop" -- The Fourth of July, 1787 -- Compromise: large states, small states, slave states, and free states -- Beyond the Connecticut Compromise -- "The people are the King" -- Fashioning a first draft of the Constitution: July 27 - August 6 -- Revising the Constitution: August 6-31 -- The "general welfare" and the presidency -- "The paradox at the nation's core" -- A fragile consensus: Sep 10-15 -- Sep 17: Day of decision -- The People's Constitution: "Federalists" seize the initiative -- Achieving a more perfect union: the Federalists prevail -- "A Republic, if you can keep it" -- Full list of delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 -- U. S. Constitution (Sep 17, 1787), Article I-VII -- A note about quotations.
520			_aFrom distinguished historian Richard Beeman comes a dramatic and engrossing account of the men who met in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 to design a radically new form of government. Beeman takes readers behind the scenes and beyond the debate to show how the world's most enduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and, eventually, fragile consensus during a time when many Americans feared that a combination of financial distress and civil unrest would doom the young nation's experiment in liberty.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bConstitutional Convention _d(1787)
650		0	_aConstitutional history _zUnited States.
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