University of Missouri Curators Teaching Professor and Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis

The Original Compromise combines profound scholarship with remarkably accessible writing to make more clear than ever before just how and why the Constitution emerged in the form that it did. Robertson is attentive to the framers' ideas and their intertwined interests, and he traces persuasively the initiatives, negotiations, and compromises that led to their imperfect but enduring achievement.

• Principal Speakers at the Convention Abbreviations 1. Introduction Part 1: The Illness and the Cure 2. The Setting3. The Remedy4. Controlling Republican Politics: The Main Challenge5. Broad Nationalism: The Politics of Virginia's Plan 6. Narrow Nationalism: The Virginia Plan's Opponents Part 2: The Politics of Building Government Institutions7. Selecting U.S. Representatives 8. Selecting U.S. Senators 9. Congressional Independence10. Selecting the President 11. Presidential Independence and Isolation12. The Courts and a Bill of Rights Part 3: The Politics of Government Power13. Federalism14. Slavery15. Economic Authority16. National Security and Foreign Policy Authority17. The End Game18. Conclusion: A Republic If You Can Keep It Appendix 1: Chronological Sequence of Constitutional Convention DecisionsAppendix 2: The United States Constitution and accompanying documents from the Constitutional Convention

University of Missouri Curators Teaching Professor and Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis

The Original Compromise combines profound scholarship with remarkably accessible writing to make more clear than ever before just how and why the Constitution emerged in the form that it did. Robertson is attentive to the framers' ideas and their intertwined interests, and he traces persuasively the initiatives, negotiations, and compromises that led to their imperfect but enduring achievement.

• Principal Speakers at the Convention Abbreviations 1. Introduction Part 1: The Illness and the Cure 2. The Setting3. The Remedy4. Controlling Republican Politics: The Main Challenge5. Broad Nationalism: The Politics of Virginia's Plan 6. Narrow Nationalism: The Virginia Plan's Opponents Part 2: The Politics of Building Government Institutions7. Selecting U.S. Representatives 8. Selecting U.S. Senators 9. Congressional Independence10. Selecting the President 11. Presidential Independence and Isolation12. The Courts and a Bill of Rights Part 3: The Politics of Government Power13. Federalism14. Slavery15. Economic Authority16. National Security and Foreign Policy Authority17. The End Game18. Conclusion: A Republic If You Can Keep It Appendix 1: Chronological Sequence of Constitutional Convention DecisionsAppendix 2: The United States Constitution and accompanying documents from the Constitutional Convention