23: Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume XXIII: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: New York, No. 5

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This is the fifth and final volume documenting New York State’s ratification of the Constitution. This actual volume includes the entire record of the state ratifying convention. Along with the official journal and the proceedings and debates of the convention, the amount incorporates many documents never before published, including the voluminous notes of the secretary of the convention and a number of of the convention delegates, the correspondence of delegates and spectators on the convention, and the wealthy newspaper commentaries describing the day-by-day events within the convention. For the first time, historians will have the ability to see how the New York convention – dominated by a two-thirds majority of Antifederalists – came to adopt the Constitution. This documentary series is a research tool of remarkable power, an unrivaled work for historical and legal scholars, librarians, and students of the Constitution.

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