Kaminski, John P

Examines six issues in the debate over the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1787-1788, using documents by eighteenth-century writers, both antifederalists and federalists, to look at the House of Representatives, the Senate, the President, the Judiciary, the Bill of Rights, and the nature of republican government.

Describes how Clinton, the leading Anti-Federalist in the country, allowed the New York State Convention to ratify the Constitution in pursuit of his ambition to become Washington's first vice-president.