Isbn: 9780306718397 - the contest over the ratification of the federal constitution in the state of massachusetts (3 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Reprint of the 1896 Edition. [LAW]. Samuel Bannister Harding (1866-1927). "The Contest over the Ratification of the Federal Constitution in the State of Massachusetts [Reprint of the 1896 Edition]." New York: Da Capo Press. Printed in the USA, 1970. Reprint of the 1896 New York Longmans, Green, and Co edition. English language. Hardcover in red faux morocco lettered gilt on front and spine. Nonfiction historical legal text in six chapters with four appendices and index. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 28 oz. [10], 194 pp. Former library copy with stickers on front and spine. Bookplate on inside front board. Stamps on colophon, title, and all edges. Remnants of card pocket and sticker on back endpapers. One leaf dog-earred. Text clean. Good. ISBN: 0306718391. "In this monograph the author proceeds first to examine the conditions which lay behind the decision of the Massachusetts convention of 1788. He shows by a brief survey of the political events anterior to this time that the people of the state were familiar with the idea of discussing and deciding in town meeting important constitutional questions, and had thereby gained a considerable degree of self-confidence. He finds the chief opposition to the Federal Constitution showing itself in three forms: distrust of delegated power; conflict of interests between the agricultural and the commercial sections of the state; and the antagonism between the aristocratic and the democratic elements of society, which last he regards as the underlying cause of all the opposition. How, in the convention at Boston, the friends of the new constitution met their more numerous opponents with arguments and mollified them with concessions till they succeeded in winning over a sufficient number to carry their point, is especially well brought out.".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Just some very light rubbing to extremites, otherwise fine.