Unruly Americans and the Origins of the ConstitutionFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 M10 14 - 384 pages Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution |
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... Articles of Confederation—the United States's first federal charter—which lasted from 1781 to 1789. Once all three ... articles do include some very important protections, but most of those were simply carryovers from the Articles of ...
... Articles of Confederation (1781–89), as too weak. What makes this emphasis strange is that the Framers' own statements reveal another, more pressing motive. Early in the Constitutional Convention, James Madison urged his colleagues to ...
... Articles of Confederation forced him out, whereupon he immediately got himself reelected to the Virginia legislature. The Articles permitted former congressmen to reclaim their seats after a three-year hiatus, and as soon as Madison's ...
... Articles of Confederation delegated the power of raising “Continental” funds to the thirteen state assemblies. To many Americans it seemed the states had botched this task. They knew why, too: representatives were reluctant to load ...
... Articles of Confederation, John Jay claimed, “scarcely any man can borrow of his neighbor.” In the last Federalist paper, Alexander Hamilton praised Article I, Section 10, of the proposed Constitution for its “precautions against the ...
Contents
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II VIRTUE AND VICE | 83 |
III UNRULY AMERICANS | 125 |
IV REINING IN THE REVOLUTION | 177 |
V ESAUS BARGAIN | 225 |
Epilogue The Underdogs Constitution | 272 |
Notes | 279 |
Acknowledgments | 355 |
Index | 357 |