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The Debate on the Constitution, Part 1: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification: September 1787 to February 1788 by William Widgery, Charles Turner, Alexander Hamilton, James Winthrop, Louis-Guillaume Otto, Robert Whitehill, Fisher Ames, Increase Sumner, Edmund Randolph, Noah Webster, Samuel Nasson, Francis Hopkinson, James Wilson, Richard Henry Lee, Daniel Shute, Samuel Osgood, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Workman, William Jones, Isaac Backus, Samuel Huntington, Luther Martin, Christopher Gore, Jonathan Smith, Pelatiah Webster, Elbridge Gerry, Thomas Baker Wait, John Hancock, Oliver Ellsworth, Martin Kinsley, George Mason, Benjamin Rush, John Smilie, David Redick, Arthur Lee, Timothy Pickering, Charles Jarvis, William Heath, Amos Singletary, Samuel Bryan, Ezra Stiles, James Iredell, Joseph Bradley Varnum, Roger Sherman, Eleonore François Elie, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Bernard Bailyn, Samuel Thomspon, George Washington, Lawrence Taliaferro, George Bryan, Isaac Snow, Joseph Barrell, John Adams, William Findley, Thomas Dawes Jr., Samuel West, Abraham Holmes, Nathaniel Barrell, James Wadsworth, George Lee Turberville, Tench Coxe, John Stevens Jr., Samuel Holden Parsons, Benjamin Franklin

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5.0

Fabulous source documents for understanding what motivated the Framers to write what they did-- and what they meant in the context of their time -- particularly with regard to the Bill of Rights.