Introduction: Constitution Day -- Part I. Creation: the critical period of American history -- A union of large and small states -- A union with slaveholders -- Part II. Ratification: stacking the deck -- Massachusetts and the first nine states -- Virginia matters -- New York joins the union -- North Carolina, the Bill of Rights, and the Madisonian exchange -- Epilogue: a new generation who know not us.
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