Ratifying the ConstitutionEdited by Michael Allen Gillespie and Michael LieneschForeword by Forrest McDonaldAfterword by Wilson Carey McWilliams432 pages, 6 x 9
"The particular strength of this book is in its state-by-state approach and in its close focus on the particular issues, personalities, and factional divisions in each state and the effect that these had on the ratification decision."--Journal of Politics "The reader will come away from this study with an understanding that the ratification of the Constitution was scarcely less miraculous than its drafting."--Forrest McDonald, author of Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution "This ought to be seen as the eighth volume of Storing, one that completes the debate over ratification. A fine, important book, likely to be consulted by scholars for many years."--Wilson Carey McWilliams, author of The Idea of Fraternity in America MICHAEL ALLEN GILLESPIE, assistant professor of political science at Duke University, is the author of Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History and coeditor (with Tracy Strong) of Nietzsche's New Seas. MICHAEL LIENESCH, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina, is the author of New Order of the Ages: Time, the Constitution, and the Making of Modern American Political Thought. CONTRIBUTORS: Lance Banning, Edward J. Cashin, Cecil L. Eubanks, Michael Allen Gillespie, George J. Graham, Jr., John P. Kaminski, Michael Lienesch, Donald S. Lutz, Peter S. Onuf, Gaspare J. Saladino, Sara M. Shumer, Robert M. Weir, Jean Yarbrough Home | About the Press | Recent Awards | Contact Us | Order
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In his foreword to this volume,
Forrest McDonald points out that while the drafting of the Constitution
has inspired a large body of historical writing, "that on
the ratification of the instrument, though an event of equal
importance and far greater drama, is relatively small."
This volume fills that gap. A diverse group of historians and
political theorists examine the interrelationship of the theoretical
debate and the political process on a state-by-state basis, unraveling
the labyrinthine complexity of ratification.