While the proposed Constitution was before the states, Americans argued over it in pamphlets as well as in the Federalist papers. Ford reprints the most important of them: Elbridge Gerry’s objections, Noah Webster and Tench Coxe in favour, Melancton Smith’s address to New Yorkers, James Wilson’s Philadelphia speech, John Dickinson’s letters of Fabius and more.
A primary-source companion to the ratification debates for students of the founding. Download the free EPUB.