From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition - Paperback

by Robert A. Goldwin (Author)

This is a gripping and essential account of how James Madison steered the Bill of Rights into the American Constitution, where scholar Robert Goldwin illuminates the clashing politics of Federalists and Anti-Federalists after the Constitutional Convention, the drama of constitutional amendment, and the founding-era legal thinking that clarified the standing of the American people, revealing why this addition completed the nation's charter and still shapes constitutional studies today.

This book tells how the Bill of Rights was amended to the Constitution and explains how that addition completed the Constitution by clarifying the status of the American people.