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All Politics Is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution. By Christopher Collier. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2003. xiv, 224 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-58465-290-X.)
In All Politics Is Local, Christopher Collier presents an interesting and intriguing perspective on the process that resulted in the adoption and ratification of the Constitution. Collier declares that "very specific state needs shaped many clauses of the United States Constitution written in Philadelphia," while "local and personal concerns often determined the vote of members of state ratifying conventions" (p. 2). Ultimately, the ratification of the Constitution came down to issues of local politics. . . .
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