Professor of history Richard Beeman, a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania for thirty-six years, is the author of six books and several dozen articles on aspects of America's political and constitutional history, including The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth Century America.
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The Constitutional Convention affected nothing less than a revolution in the nature of the American government. Led by James Madison, a small cohort of delegates devised a plan that would radically alter the balance of power between state and national gov... SEE MORE