James Madison, Not the Father of the Constitution
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Volume I Downloads
Following is a list of excerpts from Volume I available as PDF documents. Click on the title of the excerpt description or on the Adobe PDF logo to the right of each description to view or download the documents.

Preface – History vs. Myth and Original Intentions Originally (full)
11 pages • 116 KB
Chapter 1 – The First Secession Movement: In Defense of Antient English Libertyes, 1763-1776 (excerpted)
12 of 24 pages • 152 KB
Appendix B – Defining Republicanism: A Typology and Chronology, 1776-1861 and Beyond (full)
24 pages • 228 KB
Appendix E – James Madison, not the Father of the Constitution: A Note on the Federalists, The Federalist, and Anti-Federalists (excerpted)
3 pages • 84 KB


Volume II Downloads
Following is a list of excerpts from Volume II available as PDF documents. Click on the title of the excerpt description or on the Adobe PDF logo to the right of each description to view or download the documents.

Preface (full)
17 pages • 360 KB
Introduction – Beyond Myths... (excerpted)
20 of 42 pages • 408 KB
Chapter 2 – From Nationalist to Republican: James Madison and the Constitutionality of Nullification, 1787-1798 (excerpted)
17 of 34 pages • 308 KB

Dr. Kirk Wood
Dr. Kirk Wood is a retired Professor of History at Alabama State University in Montgomery.
Dr. Wood has published numerous articles about historians of the past, including U. B. Phillips, Frank L. Owsley, George Bancroft and Alexis de Tocqueville, and on issues relating to John C. Calhoun and nullification in South Carolina.
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Publishing Update
Volume III is in production and slated for release in 2014, but you can view/download a draft of the work in progress here.



















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