Book description
In one volume,
Democracy, Liberty, and Property provides an overview of
the state constitutional conventions held in the 1820s. With topics as
relevant today as they were then, this collection of essential primary
sources sheds light on many of the enduring issues of liberty.
Emphasizing the connection between federalism and liberty, the debates
that took place at these conventions show how questions of liberty
were central to the formation of state government, allowing students
and scholars to discover important insights into liberty and to
develop a better understanding of U. S. history.
The debates excerpted in
Democracy, Liberty, and Property focus on the conventions
of Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia, and they include
contributions from the principal statesmen of the founding era,
including John Adams, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Marshall.
Merrill D. Peterson (1921-2009) was Professor Emeritus of
History at the University of Virginia and a noted Jeffersonian scholar.
G. Alan Tarr is Distinguished Professor of Political Science
and Director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University-Camden.
