The Constitution and the New Republican Order (1787–1789)

What this note covers

1. The Philadelphia Convention and the Architecture of Federal Power
2. Federalists versus Anti-Federalists: The Ratification Debate
3. The Three-Fifths Compromise and the Constitution's Slavery Problem
4. The Bill of Rights (1791): Protection or Political Compromise?
5. Bernard Bailyn and the Limits of Revolutionary Change
6. Continuity and Change: Social Groups Under the New Order
7. Extent of Change: A Balanced Historiographical Assessment

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