Washington's First Term - The Election of 1789
This wasn't really an election... not in the way we think of elections today. This was more like... a coronation by consensus.
27 Apr 19min
Ratification - Virginia
We move to Virginia, whose ratification will complete the supermajority required for ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America.
13 Apr 19min
Ratification - Massachusetts
We turn to the debates in the Massachusetts ratification convention.
6 Apr 16min
Ratification - Pennsylvania
The first major convention starts in Philadelphia with mobs forcing a vote for the date. Everyone knows, so goes Pennsylvania so goes the small states around them.
30 Mar 17min
Ratification - The People's Attention
The proposed constitution hit the newspapers, and public figures start taking positions and or writing with pen names to argue their points in the public sphere
23 Mar 15min
Ratification - Introduction
Without records of all of the debates, I give the context of the materials we will cover in this season.
16 Mar 10min
Road to The Constitution - Rising Sun
The Philadelphia convention will close with a draft of a new American constitution.
23 Feb 13min
