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Title: The Fathers of the Constitution
Volume 13 in The Chronicles Of America Series

Author: Max Farrand

Editor: Allen Johnson

Posting Date: January 28, 2009 [EBook #3032]
Release Date: January, 2002

Language: English

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Produced by The James J. Kelly Library of St. Gregory's
University, and Alev Akman

THE FATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTION,

A CHRONICLE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNION

Volume 13 in The Chronicles Of America Series

Edited by Allen Johnson

By Max Farrand

New Haven: Yale University Press

Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.

London: Humphrey Milford

Oxford University Press

1921

CONTENTS

I. THE TREATY OF PEACE

II. TRADE AND INDUSTRY

III. THE CONFEDERATION

IV. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE

V. DARKNESS BEFORE DAWN

VI. THE FEDERAL CONVENTION

VII. FINISHING THE WORK

VIII. THE UNION ESTABLISHED

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

NOTES ON THE PORTRAITS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION
FATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTION

CHAPTER I. THE TREATY OF PEACE

"The United States of America"! It was in the Declaration of
Independence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the
world, and to maintain its verity the war of the Revolution was fought.
Americans like to think that they were then assuming "among the Powers
of the Earth the equal and independent Station to which the Laws
of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them"; and, in view of their
subsequent marvelous development, they are inclined to add that it must
have been before an expectant world.

In these days of prosperity and national greatness it is hard to realize
that the achievement of independence did not place the United States on
a footing of equality with other countries and that, in fact, the new
state was more or less an unwelcome member of the world family. It is
nevertheless true that the latest comer into the family of nations
did not for a long time command the respect of