Public Program, Author Talk Pauline Maier Memorial Lecture - Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention 17 January 2018.Wednesday, 6:00PM - 7:30PM There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm. Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School $10 registration fee per person. (No Charge for MHS Members or Fellows)

James Madison’s Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the description of the U.S. Constitution’s creation. No document provides a more complete record of the deliberations in Philadelphia. But how reliable is this account? In an unprecedented investigation Mary Sarah Bilder reveals that Madison revised the Notes to a far greater extent than previously recognized. Madison’s Hand offers a biography of a document that, over two centuries, developed a life and character all its own.

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