TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bilder,Mary Sarah
TI  - Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention 
SN  - 9780674055278
AV  - KF4520 .B55 2017
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - United States
KW  - HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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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