ASH 3002y Reading Assignment
March 22, 1999

Making Constitutions and Taming Factions

Required reading:

• Alexander Hamilton, "Federalist # 1," in Baym, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, pp. 742-746.
• James Madison, "Federalist # 10," in Baym, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, pp. 746-751.

Recommended reading:

The following reading presents a range of approaches to this moment in American history.  If you have time, you may want to look at one or more of these texts.   Note that the final item is a full-text version of an article in the William and Mary Quarterly that is now available on the web.  See the J-STOR site for other available journals.   There's also a very nice search engine at the site.

• Charles A. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913)
• Bernard Bailyn, ed. Debates on the Constitution, 1781-1789. 2 volumes (Library of America. 1993).
• Richard Hofstadter, "The Founding Fathers:  An Age of Realism," The American Political Tradition (New York:  Vintage, 1959) 3-17.
• Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Chapel Hill, 1969).
• Alfred F. Young, "George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742-1840): A Boston
  Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser., 38.4 (Oct. 1981): 561-623.