Doughfaces at the Founding: Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Slavery, and the Ratification of the Constitution in New York.

The article focuses on the various issues within the Constitution in New York including slavery, ratification, and federalists. It discusses the outcome of the Poughkeepsie Convention in June 1788 which brought the Constitution into operation, wherein because of it, the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in New York is considered as full of drama. It states that New York Federalist Alexander Hamilton and his colleagues had convinced the Anti-Federalists for ratification votes by erudition's sheer force. It mentions slavery which is considered as an American constitutional history's important issue, wherein it is the reason for the founding of the nation. It says that historian Staughton Lynd wrote articles in 1960 to restored his "the abolitionist critique of the Constitution."