Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE EARLY AMERICAN STATE SYSTEM -- 1 Congress and the States: Conflict Resolution in the New Nation -- 2 From Colony to Territory: Changing Concepts of Statehood -- PART TWO: STATE-MAKING -- 3 State and Citizen: Settlers Against the Pennsylvania Charter -- 4 Virginia and the West -- 5 An Unbounded State: New York, Vermont, and the Western Lands -- 6 The New State of Vermont: Revolution Within a Revolution -- PART THREE: ORIGINS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC -- 7 New States and the New Nation: American Territorial Policy in the "Critical Period" -- 8 Constitutional Crisis -- 9 Making a "Miracle": The Reconstitution of American Politics -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.