What Did the Constitution Mean to Early Americans?

by Edward Countryman (Editor/Introduction), Isaac Kramnick (Contributor), Stephen E. Patterson (Contributor)

What did the Constitution mean to early Americans? Ostensibly the foundational document of a sovereign American people, the U.S. Constitution affected different kinds of Americans in very different ways. Modern historians have investigated its impact on various groups in an effort to determine what the Constitution meant to the founding generation of Americans. Exploring how early Americans shaped, responded to, and debated the document, this volume's 5 selections attempt to gauge the Constitution's ultimate success in forging a government based on the consent of the American people.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, American History

169 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 1999

About the author

Edward Countryman was an American historian known for his study of the American Revolution.

Reviews

[June · Rating 3 out of 5]

More like a textbook than I was expecting. Very academic

[Aditi · Rating 2 out of 5]

history class