The Journal of the

Debates in the Convention

Which Framed

The Constitution of the

United States

May-September, 1787

As Recorded by

James Madison

Edited by

Gaillard Hunt

In Two Volumes

Volume I.

G. P. Putnam's Sons

New York and London

The Knickerbocker Press

1908


The Knickerbocker Press, New York


[pg iii]

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.


PAGE

The Records of the Constitutional Convention (Introduction by the Editor) vii

Chronology xix

Journal of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 1


[pg v]

LIST OF FAC-SIMILES.


FACING
PAGE

First Page of Madison's Journal, actual size 2

Charles Pinckney's Letter 20

The Pinckney Draft 22

Hamilton's Principal Speech 154


[pg vii]

THE RECORDS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

James Madison's contemporaries generally conceded that he was the leading statesman in the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States; but in addition to this he kept a record of the proceedings of the convention which outranks in importance all the other writings of the founders of the American Republic. He is thus identified, as no other man

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