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Madison's Hand : Revising the Constitutional Convention / Mary Sarah Bilder.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 18 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674055278
  • 9780674089006
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KF4520 .B55 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- About Madison's Notes -- Introduction -- I. Notes Before the Constitutional Convention -- 1. The Genre of Legislative Diaries -- 2. The Practice of Working Notes -- II. Learning to Keep a Conventional Diary -- 3. The Success of the Opening Days -- 4. Struggling with Speeches -- III. Recording the Constitutional Convention -- 5. An Account of Failed Strategies -- 6. Acquiring a New Role -- IV. Abandoning the Notes -- 7. The Complexity of Drafting -- 8. The Convention's Changing Relevance -- V. Completing the Notes -- 9. Correcting and Revising the Notes -- 10. The Infl uence of Mr. Jefferson -- Conclusion -- The Evidence. Abbreviations. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index -- The Evidence -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: No document depicts the Constitutional Convention's charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and miraculous triumphs with the force of Madison's Notes. But how reliable is this account? Drawing on digital technologies and textual analysis, Mary Sarah Bilder reveals that Madison revised to a far greater extent than previously recognized.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- About Madison's Notes -- Introduction -- I. Notes Before the Constitutional Convention -- 1. The Genre of Legislative Diaries -- 2. The Practice of Working Notes -- II. Learning to Keep a Conventional Diary -- 3. The Success of the Opening Days -- 4. Struggling with Speeches -- III. Recording the Constitutional Convention -- 5. An Account of Failed Strategies -- 6. Acquiring a New Role -- IV. Abandoning the Notes -- 7. The Complexity of Drafting -- 8. The Convention's Changing Relevance -- V. Completing the Notes -- 9. Correcting and Revising the Notes -- 10. The Infl uence of Mr. Jefferson -- Conclusion -- The Evidence. Abbreviations. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index -- The Evidence -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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No document depicts the Constitutional Convention's charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and miraculous triumphs with the force of Madison's Notes. But how reliable is this account? Drawing on digital technologies and textual analysis, Mary Sarah Bilder reveals that Madison revised to a far greater extent than previously recognized.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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