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Americans widely believe that the U.S. Constitution was almost wholly created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. Jonathan Gienapp recovers the unknown story of the Constitution's second creation in the decade after its adoption-a story with explosive implications for current debates over constitutional originalism and interpretation.

Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- United States. --- Adams. --- Amendments. --- Anti-Federalists. --- Articles of Confederation. --- Bill of Rights. --- Common law. --- Constitutional Convention. --- Enumerated powers. --- Federalism. --- Hamilton. --- Jackson. --- Jefferson. --- Madison. --- Washington. --- national bank. --- originalism.

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Driving straight to the heart of the most contentious issue in American history, Sean Wilentz argues controversially that, far from concealing a crime against humanity, the U.S. Constitution limited slavery’s legitimacy—a limitation which in time inspired the antislavery politics that led to Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation.

Slavery --- Antislavery movements --- Law and legislation --- Abolition. --- American Anti-Slavery Society. --- Anti-Federalists. --- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. --- Dred Scott. --- Emancipation. --- Federal Convention. --- Fugitive slave clause. --- John Calhoun. --- John Quincy Adams. --- Lower South. --- Madison. --- Roger Sherman. --- Stephen Douglas. --- Three-fifths clause. --- Constitutional history