The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union

by Max Farrand

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Adams, John, on American Peace Commission, [9] et seq.; personal characteristics, [10]; negotiates commerical treaty with the Netherlands, [11]; on fisheries question, [13]-[14]; on settlement of commercial indebtedness, [14]-[15]; on granting compensation to Loyalists, [20]; complains of trade restriction for New England, [26].
Adams, Samuel, and the Constitution, [151], [152].
Albany Congress (1754), [49], [50].
Annapolis Trade Convention (1786), [100]-[106].
Anti-Federalist party, [147].
Articles of Confederation, adoption (1777), [49]-[50]; ratification (1781), [50], [57]-[59]; based on Franklin’s plan of Union, [51]-[52]; provisions, [52]-[54], [67]-[68], [86], [100]; questions of land ownership delay ratification, [56]-[57], [58]; financial power of Congress under, [86]; failure of Commercial amendment of 1784, [99]; relation of Constitution, [125], [131], [144]; defects corrected in Constitution, [142]; attempt at revision, [144]-[145]; text, [175]-[189].
Assenisipia, [69].