| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Christopher Collier. All Politics is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2003. Pp. xi, 224. $39.95.

This short book on Connecticut and the framing and ratification of the Constitution has two goals: to demonstrate that the proceedings in and outcome of the Philadelphia convention were shaped by specific state interests that the delegates brought to the convention, and to show that the vote on the Constitution in Connecticut's ratifying convention was determined neither by economic interest nor ideology but by personal networks and local political conflicts. "The Constitution's many original meanings" (p. 2), Christopher Collier contends, can only be captured by detailed studies of local circumstances in individual states.

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