An account of the Federal Convention presenting an analysis of the conditions, the convictions, and the men who framed the Constitution of the United States.

By integrating state constitution-makers with the federal constitutional tradition, this path-breaking work yields a superior understanding of how American citizens have chosen to govern themselves.

A true-life suspense story, "The Summer of 1787" takes readers into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that had come to define the nation, then and now.

Chronicles the making of the United States Constitution and examines the men who created the document.

This work contains the debates of the states over the ratification of the Constitution in 1787.