Some Americans denounced the Constitution for threatening the liberty that Americans had won at great cost in the Revolutionary War. The document we revere today as the foundation of our country’s laws, the cornerstone of our legal system, was hotly disputed at the time. There was reason to doubt whether that would happen. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect. When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. The defining book of the American Revolution era and a winner of the George Washington Book Award, Ratification chronicles the pivotal moments and key figures in transforming the US Constitution from an idea into a transformational document and the Constitutional Convention into a working government.
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