The American Heritage History of the Making of the NationAmerican Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1968 - United States - 416 pages |
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Page 34
... delegates had no con- scious intention of exceeding their instructions of meet- ing " for the sole and express purpose of revising the Ar- ticles of the Confederation . " Some , like William Blount of North Carolina , doubted if even ...
... delegates had no con- scious intention of exceeding their instructions of meet- ing " for the sole and express purpose of revising the Ar- ticles of the Confederation . " Some , like William Blount of North Carolina , doubted if even ...
Page 37
... delegates met in full conven- tion . Once more the great and bitter debate - the issue of small states versus large - echoed : Should represen- tation be by population or by state ? The feeling grew that the convention itself was ...
... delegates met in full conven- tion . Once more the great and bitter debate - the issue of small states versus large - echoed : Should represen- tation be by population or by state ? The feeling grew that the convention itself was ...
Page 38
... delegates at Philadelphia and — in the transmutation of names not unfamiliar to politics- they became known as Federalists while the old federal- ist opposition took the name Antifederalist . It was clear that the battle for ...
... delegates at Philadelphia and — in the transmutation of names not unfamiliar to politics- they became known as Federalists while the old federal- ist opposition took the name Antifederalist . It was clear that the battle for ...
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