<DIV><p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">This is the fourth of five planned volumes documenting New York State's ratification of the Constitution. This particular volume includes the complete record of the state ratifying convention. In addition to the official journal and the proceedings and debates of the convention, the volume contains many documents never before published, including the voluminous notes of the secretary of the convention and several of the convention delegates, the correspondence of delegates and spectators at the convention, and the rich newspaper commentaries describing the day-by-day events in the convention. For the first time, historians will be able to see how the New York convention&mdash;dominated by a two-thirds majority of Antifederalists&mdash;came to adopt the Constitution. This documentary series is a research tool of remarkable power, an unrivaled reference work for historical and legal scholars, librarians, and students of the Constitution.</p></DIV>