TY  - SOUND
AU  - McElroy,Wendy
AU  - Cronkite,Walter
TI  - The ratification debates.
T2  - Audio classics series
SN  - 9780786169771
AV  - KF4541.C947.R385 2006 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Ashland, Or.
PB  - Blackstone Audiobooks [distributor]
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - United States
N1  - Unabridged; Compact disc; 2
N2  - In the fall of 1787, the call went out: Each of the 13 states assembled special conventions to consider ratification of a proposed Constitution of the United States. Without ratification by nine conventions, the Constitution would flounder: America would be a league of states, not one nation. At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the states - voting as states - had unanimously approved the Constitution. But individual delegates had fiercely opposed certain aspects of the document. Now, they returned to their home states to agitate against the Constitution. Some demanded a bill of rights. Others complained that states' rights had been violated. Some states - such as Delaware and Georgia - quickly and unanimously ratified. Other states - such as Virginia and New York - agonized. Two states - North Carolina and Rhode Island - would not ratify at all without a bill of rights
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