Easton Press: Constitution Of U.s. Philadelphia: 1790: Page Smith
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EASTON PRESS: CONSTITUTION OF U.S. PHILADELPHIA: 1790: PAGE SMITH. Bound in scarlet red leather, the book has paper end leaves, satin book markers, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. The Constitutional Convention began in 1787 and its final ratification was in 1790 The debates were intense. Easton Press leather edition of Page Smith's "The Constitution: A Documentary and Narrative History," COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the LIBRARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY series, published in 1987. Bound in scarlet red leather, the book has paper end leaves, satin book markers, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. The Constitution of the U.S. is one of the greatest documents ever written with its brilliant system of checks and balances. The Constitutional Convention began in 1787 and its final ratification was in 1790 The debates were intense. Many Americans believed that a national government would be more tyrannical than the British monarchy. The Preamble begins: We the people of the U.S., in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article I states that all legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the U.S., which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section 2 states that the House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second year by the People of the several state . . .No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years and been seven Years a Citizen of the U.S., when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. Some of the principal debaters and organizers included GEORGE WASHINGTON, ELBRIDGE GERRY, JOHN ADAMS, SALMON CHASE, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, ANDREW JACKSON, THOMAS JEFFERSON, JOHN MARSHALL, JAMES MADISON, GEORGE MASON, GOUVERNER MORRIS, JAMES MONROE, EMUND RANDOLPH, JAMES WILSON, DANIEL WEBSTER, and GEORGE WYETH. Hot topics included executive power, the judiciary, elections and voting, property, religion, the Supreme Court, taxes and tariffs, trade, treaties, money, monopolies, juries, and states' rights. The Founding Fathers did not doubt the natural goodness of the race. The document has endured for nearly 250 years! Professor Page Smith has won many awards, including the BANCROFT PRIZE, and has written biographies about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 566 pages, including an Appendix and an index. I offer combined shipping.
