Maier, Pauline

Provides an account of the battle to get the U.S. Constitution ratified, a process that required individual states to hold conventions to scrutinize and debate each clause before the Constitution could take effect.

Reprints the entire texts of two of the most significant American documents ever written, including The Declaration of Independence, and The Constitution of the United States; and features an introduction, as well as copies of the Bill of Rights and successive constitutional amendments.

Provides an account of the battle to get the U.S. Constitution ratified, a process that required individual states to hold conventions to scrutinize and debate each clause before the Constitution could take effect.

Tells the story of the original making of the Declaration of Independence, and looks at how, after a period in which it was all but forgotten, the document began to assume quasi-religious attributes leading to its enshrinement at the Library of Congress and later the National Archives.