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The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume 31: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: North Carolina, No. 2

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume 31: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: North Carolina, No. 2

Current price: $118.75
Publication Date: November 1st, 2019
Publisher:
Wisconsin Historical Society Press
ISBN:
9780870209215
Pages:
480

Description

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: North Carolina (Volumes 30-31) are the latest volumes in the Society Press's 34-plus volume Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution series, praised as "the most important editorial project in the nation" by constitutional historian Leonard Levy. They detail public and private ratification debates between North Carolina's opponents and proponents of the Constitution.

The series aims to preserve the state-by-state debates about the ratification of the United States Constitution. It is an unrivalled reference work on the US Constitution. Each volume is encyclopaedic, consisting of manuscripts and published documents compiled from thousands of sources, carefully transcribed, thoroughly annotated, comprehensively indexed and often accompanied by a variety of supplemental documents.

About the Author

John P. Kaminski is the founder and director of The Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is director and co-editor of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution of which thirty-two volumes have been published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. A leading scholar on Constitutional history, Kaminski has also published numerous other volumes on a variety of topics in the American Founding Era and is the author of the America's Founders Series.