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CONTENTS TO VOLUME II.
BOOK III.
THE CONSTITUTION BEFORE THE PEOPLE.
CHAPTER I.
THE CONSTITUTION BEFORE CONGRESS AND THE COUN-
TRY-RATIFICATION BY DELAWARE, PENNSYLVANIA,
NEW JERSEY, GEORGIA AND CONNECTICUT.
The Ohio Company and the Northwest......
Anti-Slavery Clause in the Ordinance of 1787..
Slavery in the Northwest...
The Clause as a Precedent...
Richard Henry Lee.....
The Anti-Federalists
• Sentiment of the Country..
Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
Sentiment in New England......
In New York and New Jersey..
In Pennsylvania and Delaware.
In Maryland and Virginia.
In the Carolinas........
In the Southwest..
Opposition in Connecticut.
Paper Money......
Attitude of Parties....
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RATIFICATION BY MASSACHUSETTS, MARYLAND, SOUTH
CAROLINA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE.
RATIFICATION BY VIRGINIA.
Activity of Washington for the New Plan....
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THE NEW GOVERNMENT INAUGURATED; RATIFICATION
BY NORTH CAROLINA, RHODE ISLAND AND VERMONT.
Shall the House Consider Amendments?.
CHAPTER VI.
THE FIRST TEN AMENDMENTS.
Madison Gives Notice of Amendments.
Precedents for the Amendments Proposed.
Jefferson's Opinion of Wilson....
Jefferson, Lee and Mason....
Petition of the Virginia Assembly.....
Madison's Plan......
Character of the Amendments..
Is a Bill of Rights Necessary?.
Question of Representation.....
Urgency of Amendments...
Amendments Unnecessary.