On Tuesday, May 7th at 5:15 PM, Mary Sarah Bilder of the Boston College School of Law will be delivering "Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention," as part of the Boston Area Early American History Seminar at the Massachussetts Historical Society. Pauline Maier of MIT will comment. Below is the abstract and further information:
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Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School
"Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention"
Comment: Pauline Maier, MIT
Madison's Notes with his revisions remain the most prominent remnants of
the Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. What does it mean
to take seriously that Madison's notes on the Convention are notes? Two
hundred and twenty-five years after Madison first wrote the Notes,
changing technology makes it possible to revisit the manuscript. This
paper will suggest that Madison revised his notes far more extensively
than has been previously understood. The revised notes demonstrate that
Madison's understanding of the Convention, the Constitution, and his own
role changed dramatically between May 1787 and the end of the eighteenth
century.
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