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Additional resources for this issue of History Now
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The Antifederalists: The Other Founders of the American
Constitutional Tradition?
Professor Cornell has done much of my work for me in
his essay, citing major works in the field and outlining
the historiography of Antifederalist studies. Here are
some additional studies you may want to consult:
Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and
Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New York:
Knopf, 1996. Wide-ranging synthesis.
Rutland, Robert Allen. The Ordeal of the Constitution:
The Antifederalists and the Ratification Struggle Of
1787-1788. Boston: Northeastern University Press,
1983.
Siemers, David J. Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists
and Federalists in Constitutional Time. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2002.
Storing, Herbert J. What the Anti-Federalists Were
For. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Wakelyn, Jon L. Birth of the Bill Of Rights: Encyclopedia
of the Antifederalists. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 2004.
You'll find detailed discussions of many individual
Antifederalist spokesmen of the 1780s in Professor Cornell's
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting
Tradition in America, 1788-1828.
For Antifederalist writings, you'll probably want to
use this one-volume compilation:
Kaminski, John P., and Richard Leffler, eds. Federalists
and Antifederalists: The Debate over the Ratification
of the Constitution. Madison, WI: Madison House,
1998.
If you want more texts and more detail, consult this
seven-volume series:
Storing, Herbert J., ed. The Complete Anti-Federalist.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Finally, Professor Cornell modestly omitted reference
to this collection of documentary readings and essays
that will intrigue students interested in the Second
Amendment's guarantees. He collaborated on the book
with Robert Shalhope:
Whose Right To Bear Arms Did The Second Amendment
Protect? Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.
Websites
The websites I've listed for general use will
give you plenty to work with for Antifederalists. You
may also want to look at the selection of Antifederalist
writings provided by the Community Environmental Legal
Defense Fund:
http://www.celdf.org/DemocracySchool/AnOutlineoftheWeekendCurriculum/
AntiFederalists/tabid/236/Default.aspx
The Library of Congress chose Amos Doolittle's caricature
"Looking Glass for 1787" as one of its "Top
Treasures." You can find an image and full background
information online at:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt050.html
While many Antifederalists are still awaiting book-length
biographies, here are some exceptions to that rule:
Billias, George Athan. Elbridge Gerry, Founding
Father and Republican Statesman. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1976.
Broadwater, Jeff. George Mason, Forgotten Founder.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Foster, Joseph S. In Pursuit of Equal Liberty:
George Bryan and the Revolution In Pennsylvania.
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University,
1994.
You can also consult an online version of one of Bryan's
"Centinel" letters in American Memory:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/bdsbib:@field(NUMBER+@od1(bdsdcc+c0701))
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