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EBSCO Publishing : eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - printed on 11/5/2020 10:47 PM via FULTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM AN: 965093 ; Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, Edward C. Carter II.; Beyond Confederation : Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity Account: afpl Beyond Confederation This page intentionally left blank Beyond Confederation Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity EDITED BT RICHARD BEEMAN, STEPHEN BOTEIN, AND EDWARD C. CARTER II Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburj?, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill & London The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture is sponsored jointly by The College of William and Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. © 1987 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America cloth 06 05 04 03 02 5 4 3 2 1 paper 06 05 9 8 7 6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Pubiication Data Beyond confederation "Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." Includes index. 1. United States—Politics and government—1783- 1789. 2. United States. Constitution. 3. United States—Constitutional history. I. Beeman, Richard R. II. Botein, Stephen. III. Carter, Edward Carlos, II 1928- . IV. Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) E303.P85 1987 973.3'18 86-16150 ISBN 0-8078-1719-8 ISBN 0-8078-4172-2 (pbk.) Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation. THIS BOOK WAS DIGITALLY PRINTED. To the memory of Stephen Botein This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments All but two of the essays in this volume were initially presented at a con- ference in Philadelphia in October 1984, "The Creation of the American Constitution." That conference was jointly sponsored by the American Philosophical Society, the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, and the Institute of Early American History and Culture and was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The John Ben Snow Foundation provided additional support to underwrite publication of these essays. We thank all of those institutions for their generous support. We would also like to acknowledge the invaluable help of Sharon Holt and Alan Karras of the University of Pennsylvania, who contributed mightily of their labors during the conference, and of Hobart Cawood, Superinten- dent of the Independence National Historical Park, who generously opened his domain to the conferees. Finally, we would like to thank the members of the staff at the Institute of Early American History and Culture—Gil Kelly, Martha King, Philip D. Morgan, Wendy Sacket, and Thad W. Tate—for their substantial editorial contributions to the volume. Most of us who contributed to this volume possessed a high regard for the scholarly abilities of Stephen Botein well before work on this collection of essays commenced. Over the course of the year and a half in which the volume had been going through the editorial process we came to appreciate not only his considerable intellect and his incisive but nevertheless gentle manner as a critic, but also, and most important, his warmth, good humor, and decency as a human being. We were shocked and saddened to learn of his death, which occurred only a few days after the major part of the edi- torial work was completed and the manuscript sent to the printer. We will miss Steve terribly, but at the same time we hope this book will stand as partial monument to his accomplishments as teacher, scholar, and friend. This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction Richard Beeman 3 PART I: IDEOLOGIES The American Constitution: A Revolutionary Interpretation Stanley N. Katz 23 The Constitution of the Thinking Revolutionary Ralph Lerner 38 Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution Gordon S. Wood 69 PART II: ISSUES Shays's Rebellion and the Ratification of the Federal Constitution in Massachusetts Richard D. Brown 113 Money, Credit, and Federalist Political Economy Janet A. Riesman 128 The Practicable Sphere of a Republic: James Madison, the Constitutional Convention, and the Emergence of Revolutionary Federalism Lance Banning 162 Slavery and the Constitutional Convention: Making a Covenant with Death PaulFinkelman 188
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