Edmund Randolph

Jan 13, 2013

Sanford Levinson’s New Constitutional Settlement

Book Review
by Kevin Gutzman / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Alexander Hamilton, Chisholm v. Georgia, Constitutional Amendment, Edmund Randolph, Framed, George Washington, Preamble to the Constitution

Sanford Levinson here sets himself the task of examining not what he calls the “Constitution of Conversation,” but what he terms the “Constitution of Settlement.” He notes that many people devote barrels of ink to proposing meanings that they …

May 3, 2012

The Virginians

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Filed Under: Edmund Pendleton, Edmund Randolph, Federalists, George Mason, George Nicholas, Henry Lee, James Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, Patrick Henry, Philadelphia Convention, Virginia Constitution of 1776, Virginia Declaration of Rights, Virginia Ratifying Convention

Ratifying the U.S. Constitution in Virginia

The Philadelphia Convention rent Virginia’s political elite as no event ever had. Not only had Patrick Henry refused his proffered seat (he said he “smelt a rat”), but two of the three delegates who …