Philadelphia Heats Up -- A Special Document -- A Plan That Didn't Work -- Meeting For a Change -- The Framers -- Branches and Chambers -- Debating Slavery -- The Father of the Constitution -- The Plan is Approved! -- Washington Leads a New Government -- The Bill of Rights -- The Constitution Today.
Summary:
"Did you know the U.S. Constitution doesn't include the word democracy? Or that it took 10 long months to ratify? How about how much the clerk who handwrote the original copy of the Constitution was signed? (It was $30, by the way.) Find out all the extreme history behind one of our nation's most important documents"-- Provided by publisher.
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