Max Farrand

Max Farrand
Max Farrand (1869–1945) was an American historian and writer known for his scholarship on the early history of the United States. His most notable work is "The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787," a comprehensive collection of documents related to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution. Farrand also authored "The Framing of the Constitution of the United States," which offered analysis on the constitutional process. He served as a professor at Yale University and later directed the Huntington Library in California.

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THE FRENCH DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF AUGUST 26, 1789, AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE. The declaration of "the rights of man and of citizens" by the French Constituent Assembly on August 26, 1789, is one of the most significant events of the French Revolution. It has been criticised from different points of view with directly opposing results. The political scientist and the historian, thoroughly... more...

CHAPTER I. THE TREATY OF PEACE "The United States of America"! It was in the Declaration of Independence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the world, and to maintain its verity the war of the Revolution was fought. Americans like to think that they were then assuming "among the Powers of the Earth the equal and independent Station to which the Laws of Nature and of... more...