This is the third of five planned volumes documenting New York State’s public and private debates about the Constitution and the calling of New York’s ratifying convention, featuring numerous newspaper items and letters, New York ratification chronologies, lists of New York officeholders, biographies of major figures, and many other important documents and editors’ notes. 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. To learn more about other completed and forthcoming volumes, read vols. IV-VII online, and search an online index for volume XIX, visit the Wisconsin Historical Society Press’s Web site, www .wisconsin history.org/publications/ratification or visit www .wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/constitution.htm.