weapons for,24
Butler,Pierce,92
Caesar,Julius,6
Calhoun,John C.,94,241
Callender,James,198,201,208-9
Canada,132 Carroll,Charles,246
Catiline,42-3
Cato(Addison),139
census of 1790,102-4
centralized political power,Americans’ suspicion of,7-8,9Church,John,24
Cicero,6,42,123
Cincinnatus,123
Civil War,12,16,101,241
Clay,Henry,156
Clinton,George,40
Cobbett,William,190,217
Coles,Edward,221
Compromise of 1790
congressional approval,50
Compromise of 1790(cont’d)
dinner-table bargain,48-50,51,73
direct link between two issues,257n 41Jefferson-Madison collaboration and,80Jefferson’s views on,50-1,73-4
preliminary negotiations,72-3
slavery debate and,116
survival of American nation and,50-2,78Confederation Congress,93
Congress,U.S.,see House of Representatives;Senateconsolidation assumption issue and,58,59,63-4slavery debate and,108
Constitution,13
criticisms of,9
ratification of,52-3
slavery debate and,82,83,84,85-6,87,91-6,112,116-18Washington’s retirement and,122
Constitutional Convention,52,121,130,132,165,212,213compromises to produce consensus,9-10
extralegal nature,8
minutes of secret deliberations,137
“miraculous” quality,8-9
slavery debate,85-6,91-4,110-11
Continental Army,11,121,130-1,165
Continental Congress,67,89,101,165
Cooper,Charles,32
Courier of New Hampshire,121
Coxe,Tench,72
Declaration of Independence,11,67,68,122,127-8,139,143,163,165,247composition of,212-13,216,2.42


