Constitutional Convention: Bibliography

See C. A. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913, repr. 1960); M. Farrand, The Framing of the Constitution (1913, repr. 1962) and Fathers of the Constitution (1921); C. Van Doren, The Great Rehearsal (1948); M. Jensen, The New Nation (1950, repr. 1962); F. McDonald, We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution (1958, repr. 1962) and The Formation of the American Republic (1967); J. J. Ellis, The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783–1789 (2015); M. J. Klarman, The Framers' Coup (2016).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• The Constitution Emerges
• The Road to the Convention
• Bibliography

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