Taking a cue from Bernard Bailyn's description of the constitutional debate as “the ideological fulfillment of the Revolution,” this essay analyzes the Constitution's contribution to a level of governance often slighted in histories focusing on the states and the federal government: the relationship of the United States to the other nations in the Atlantic world.

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