Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/11/18
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James Madison’s Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention has acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the description of the Constitution’s creation. But by drawing on digital technologies and traditional textual analysis, Mary Sarah Bilder reveals that Madison revised the Notes to a far greater extent than previously recognized and offers readers a biography of a document that, over two centuries, developed a life and character all its own. A book signing follows the program.
