Mapping the Constitution: The Cartographic History of the Ratification of the Constitution - Hardcover

by John P. Kaminski (Editor), Timothy D. Moore (Editor), Sarah Danforth (Editor)

Ending in mid-September 1787, the Constitutional Convention recommended that the state legislatures call conventions elected by the people to consider ratifying the newly proposed Constitution. The five New England state legislatures called conventions in which delegates represented their towns, while in the other nine state conventions delegates represented counties and a few large towns. The maps in this atlas show the division between Federalists and Antifederalists in all fourteen states. This volume also contains a map derived from a map originally created in 1894 that depicts the geographical division of the vote on the Constitution throughout the country. Another map shows the locations of American towns in which nearly 100 newspapers and magazines were published in 1787-1790. Additionally, the names of the convention delegates are listed in state rosters arranged alphabetically by their towns and/or counties.

Distributed for the Center for the Study of the American Constitution

Author Biography

John Kaminski is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and serves as director and coeditor of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Timothy D. Moore is deputy director for outreach at the CSAC. Sarah K. Danforth is an editorial assistant and coeditor at the CSAC. Thomas H. Linley is deputy director of publications at the CSAC.