Supplement to Max Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
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Edited by James H. Hutson
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The Federal Convention of 1787 engaged in the great and complex labor of framing the Constitution for the union of the states. For thirty years afterward, little was known of its deliberations, and nothing official was published about them. The variety of versions that began to appear thereafter tended to confuse rather than clarify the situation.
In 1911 all available records that had been written by the Convention participants were gathered together by Max Farrand and published in three volumes as The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. A Revised Edition by Farrand, published in 1937, incorporated in a fourth volume material that had come to light after the first printing. Now, two hundred years after the Federal Convention, a Supplement to Farrand’s authoritative source is available. Edited by James Hutson, this volume includes documentary material discovered since the appearance of the 1937 edition.
"There is no question that Hutson has done a prodigious job with this supplementary volume. Many of the documents in this new volume are invaluable finds. The book will be a superb entry in the bicentennial lists."—Peter C. Hoffer
"An indispensable reference work for the study of the Constitution. The editing has been done with care and elegance."—Choice
"Hutson's Supplement is not only a fitting memorial of the Bicentennial of the Constitution but a tribute to max Farrand's original conception. Scholars will be able to exploit the rich materials Farrand collected with renewed confidence."—Peter S. Onuf, A Current Bibliography, n.s. 13
ISBN: 9780300039047
Publication Date: September 10, 1987
Publication Date: September 10, 1987
473 pages, 5 1/2 x 8
