5. To what extent has the economic interdependence of different members of your community led to a better understanding? To a closer identity of interests?
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6. Difficulties of travel in colonial times. (Crawford, Social Life in Old New England, chapter x.)
7. Postal facilities in the colonial period. (Bogart, Economic History of the United States, pages 82-83.)
8. Diversity of economic interests among the colonies. (Bogart and Thompson, Readings in the Economic History of the United States, pages 29-42.)
9. Union under the Continental Congresses. (Beard, American Government and Politics, pages 21-25.)
10. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. (McLaughlin, The Confederation and the Constitution, pages 187-190.)
11. The work of the Constitutional Convention. (Beard, American Government and Politics, pages 44-53. See also any other standard text on American history or government.)
12. Madison's criticism of the Articles of Confederation. (Beard, Readings in American Government and Politics, pages 38-43.)
13. Hamilton's plea for a strong national government. (Beard, Readings in American Government and Politics, pages 47-49.)