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The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union
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Title: The Fathers of the Constitution
Volume 13 in The Chronicles Of America Series
Author: Max Farrand
Release Date: January 28, 2009 [EBook #3032]
Last Updated: November 20, 2105
Language: English
Produced by The James J. Kelly Library of St. Gregory's University, Alev Akman, David Widger, and Robert Homa
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTION ***
The Fathers of the Constitution
By Max Farrand
A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union
Volume 13 of the
Chronicles of America Series
∴
Allen Johnson, Editor
Assistant Editors
Gerhard R. Lomer
Charles W. Jefferys
Abraham Lincoln Edition
New Haven: Yale University Press
Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.
London: Humphrey Milford
Oxford University Press
1921
Copyright, 1921,
by Yale University Press
| Chapter | Chapter Title | Page |
|---|---|---|
| I. | The Treaty of Peace | 1 |
| II. | Trade and Industry | 22 |
| III. | The Confederation | 35 |
| IV. | The Northwest Ordinance | 55 |
| V. | Darkness Before Dawn | 81 |
| VI. | The Federalist Convention | 108 |
| VII. | Finishing the Work | 125 |
| VIII. | The Union Established | 143 |
| Appendix | 167 | |
| *Declaration of Independence | 167 | |
| *Articles of Confederation | 175 | |
| *Northwest Territory Ordinance | 190 | |
| *Constitution of the United States | 201 | |
| Bibliographical Note | 219 | |
| Notes on the Portraits | 225 | |
| Index | 239 |
THE FATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTION
CHAPTER I
THE TREATY OF PEACE
“The United States of America”! It was in the Declaration of Independence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the world, and to maintain its verity the war of the Revolution was fought. Americans like to think that they were then assuming “among the Powers of the Earth the equal and independent Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them”; and, in view of their subsequent marvelous development, they are inclined to add that it must have been before an expectant world.
In these days of prosperity and national greatness it is hard to realize that the achievement of independence did not place the United States on a footing of equality with other countries and that, in fact, the new state was more or less an unwelcome member of the world family. It is nevertheless true that the latest comer into the family of nations did not for a long time command the respect of the world. This lack of respect was partly due to the character of the American population. Along with the many estimable and excellent people who had come to British North America inspired by the best of motives, there had come others who were not regarded favorably by the governing classes of Europe. Discontent is frequently a healthful sign and a forerunner of progress, but it makes one an uncomfortable neighbor in a satisfied and conservative community; and discontent was the underlying factor in the migration from the Old World