The Fathers of the Constitution : A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union / Max Farrand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farrand, Max, author.

Contributor:

Johnson, Allen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 246 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press; Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921.

Summary:

"The United States of America"! It was in the Declaration of Independence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the world, and to maintain its verity the war of the Revolution was fought. Americans like to think that they were then assuming "among the Powers of the Earth the equal and independent Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them"; and, in view of their subsequent marvelous development, they are inclined to add that it must have been before an expectant world.

Contents:

The Declaration of independence, 1776

Articles of confederation, 1777

The Northwest territorial government, 1787

Constitution of the United States, 1787

Notes on the portraits of members of the Federal convention who signed the Constitution / Victor Hugo Paltsits.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Yale University Press; Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, viewed August 1, 2023).