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Back to SearchWashington's First Term - The Election of 1789
Season 16 Episode 1
This wasn't really an election... not in the way we think of elections today. This was more like... a coronation by consensus.
4 hours ago
Ratification - Virginia
Season 15 Episode 5
We move to Virginia, whose ratification will complete the supermajority required for ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America…
2 weeks ago
Ratification - Massachusetts
Season 15 Episode 4
We turn to the debates in the Massachusetts ratification convention.
3 weeks ago
Ratification - Pennsylvania
Season 15 Episode 3
The first major convention starts in Philadelphia with mobs forcing a vote for the date. Everyone knows, so goes Pennsylvania so goes the small state…
4 weeks ago
Ratification - The People's Attention
Season 15 Episode 2
The proposed constitution hit the newspapers, and public figures start taking positions and or writing with pen names to argue their points in the pu…
1 month ago
Ratification - Introduction
Season 15 Episode 1
Without records of all of the debates, I give the context of the materials we will cover in this season.
1 month, 1 week ago
The Constitution of the United States of America
Season 14 Episode 9
The completed constitution of the Unite States of America.
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Road to The Constitution - Rising Sun
Season 14 Episode 8
The Philadelphia convention will close with a draft of a new American constitution.
2 months ago
Road to The Constitution - Committee of detail
Season 14 Episode 7
The convention settles on the Sherman compromise for the legislature and take up the issue of slavery. Washington will form a committee of detail to …
2 months, 1 week ago
Road to The Constitution - Disillusion
Season 14 Episode 6
The convention begins to breakdown, delegates threaten each other, and cannot find compromises on distribution of voting power
2 months, 2 weeks ago