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The Essential Debate on the Constitution 1812trousers But one of the mostPaperback Return to the nations founding to rediscover the dramatic original debateson presidential power, religious liberty, foreign corruption, and morethat still shape our world today When the Constitutional Convention adjourned on September 17, 1787, few Americans anticipated the document that emerged from its secret proceedings. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other framers had fashioned something radically new, a strong national