The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution by Jonathan Elliot

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The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution by Jonathan Elliot is a multi-volume 19th-century compilation of primary-source records from state ratifying conventions that provides a foundational documentary history of the framing and adoption of the U.S. Constitution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf documentary collection
historical source
multi-volume work
primary-source compilation
alsoKnownAs Elliot's Debates
author Jonathan Elliot
compilationType documentary history
compiler Jonathan Elliot
contains primary-source documents related to ratification
records of state ratifying convention debates
speeches by delegates to state conventions
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
documentType printed book series
editor Jonathan Elliot
fieldOfStudy American legal history
American political development
constitutional law
focus debates over adoption of the Federal Constitution
format multi-volume book
genre legal history
political history
historicalEventDocumented ratification of the United States Constitution
historicalPeriodCovered Framing and adoption of the United States Constitution
importance foundational source for U.S. constitutional history
language English
primarySourcesIncluded convention proceedings
statements by Federalists and Anti-Federalists
transcripts of convention debates
publicationCentury 19th century
purpose to preserve and publish records of ratification debates
relatedTo Anti-Federalist Papers
surface form: Anti-Federalist writings

The Federalist Papers
scope debates from several U.S. state conventions
subject United States Constitution
constitutional history of the United States
federalism in the United States
political debates of the 1780s
state ratifying conventions
timeOfCompilation 19th century
usedAs reference work in constitutional scholarship
source for original understanding of the Constitution
usedBy constitutional lawyers
historians of the United States Constitution
political scientists

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Virginia Ratifying Convention describedBySource The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution by Jonathan Elliot
John Church Hamilton notableWork The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution by Jonathan Elliot
this entity surface form: History of the Republic of the United States of America, as Traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and of His Contemporaries