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Madison's hand : revising the Constitutional Convention / Mary Sarah Bilder.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 358 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, facsimilesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674089006
  • 9780674495500
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KF4510 .M335 2015
  • KF4510
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
II. Learning to Keep a Conventional Diary. The success of the opening days ; Struggling with speeches -- III. Recording the Constitutional Convention. An account of failed strategies ; Acquiring a new role -- IV. Abandoning the Notes. The complexity of drafting ; The Convention's changing relevance -- V. Completing the Notes. Correcting and revising the notes ; The influence of Mr. Jefferson.
Subject: "New digital technologies and traditional historical investigation suggest that James Madison did not finish his famous Notes until after the Convention. The Notes are the most important, and most misunderstood, account of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. This biography of the Notes follows Madison as he created and then repeatedly revised a remarkable manuscript of American history. Originally a diary kept in part for the absent Thomas Jefferson, the Notes highlighted his fascination with the political strategy of drafting. But when the Convention began to draft the details of the Constitution, the complicated process led Madison to abandon his Notes. Only after serving in Congress and drafting new constitutional amendments did Madison return to complete them. By the time the Notes were published a half-century later, the layers of revisions made the Notes appear--inaccurately--to be an objective record of the writing of the Constitution"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

"New digital technologies and traditional historical investigation suggest that James Madison did not finish his famous Notes until after the Convention. The Notes are the most important, and most misunderstood, account of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. This biography of the Notes follows Madison as he created and then repeatedly revised a remarkable manuscript of American history. Originally a diary kept in part for the absent Thomas Jefferson, the Notes highlighted his fascination with the political strategy of drafting. But when the Convention began to draft the details of the Constitution, the complicated process led Madison to abandon his Notes. Only after serving in Congress and drafting new constitutional amendments did Madison return to complete them. By the time the Notes were published a half-century later, the layers of revisions made the Notes appear--inaccurately--to be an objective record of the writing of the Constitution"--

I. Notes Before the Constitutional Convention. The genre of legislative diaries ; The practice of working notes -- II. Learning to Keep a Conventional Diary. The success of the opening days ; Struggling with speeches -- III. Recording the Constitutional Convention. An account of failed strategies ; Acquiring a new role -- IV. Abandoning the Notes. The complexity of drafting ; The Convention's changing relevance -- V. Completing the Notes. Correcting and revising the notes ; The influence of Mr. Jefferson.

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