The Reluctant Pillar

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  • The Reluctant Pillar Book Detail

  • Author : Stephen L. Schechter
  • Release Date : 1985
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 276
  • ISBN 13 : 9780930309008
  • File Size : 40,40 MB

The Reluctant Pillar by Stephen L. Schechter PDF Summary

Book Description: This collection of essays is intended for both the general reader and the specialist and is designed to provide the basic elements needed for an introductory survey and a reference aid to the role of New York State in the adoption of the federal Constitution. The collection is organized into five sections: theory, history, materials, people and places, and chronologies. The essays include: "The U.S. Constitution and the American Tradition of Constitution-Making" (Daniel J. Elazar); "The Ends of Federalism" (Martin Diamond). "The Constitution of the United States: The End of the Revolution" (Richard Leffler); "New York: The Reluctant Pillar" (John P. Kaminski); "A Guide to Sources for Studying the Ratification of the Constitution by New York State" (Gaspare J. Saladino);"Fiction--Another Source" (Jack VanDerhoof); "A Biographical Gazetteer of New York Federalists and Antifederalists" (Stephen L. Schechter); "A Preliminary Inventory of the Homes of New York Federalists and Antifederalists" (Stephen L. Schechter); and "A Guide to Historic Sites of the Ratification Debate in New York" (Stephen L. Schechter). The volume concludes with two chronologies, entitled respectively: "A Chronology of Constitutional Events during the American Revolutionary Era, 1774-1792"; and "A Chronology of New York Events, 1777-1788." (DB)

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