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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... Hampshire embraced the new national government out of a conviction that “our rights & property are now the sport of ignorant unprincipled State legislators.”5 In the last of the Federalist Papers—the series of eighty-five newspaper ...
... Hampshire, Jeremy Belknap reported, taxpayers were convinced that “the public securities . . . were engrossed by rich speculators, and the poor were distressed for the means of paying their taxes and their private debts.”80 No slur was ...
... Hampshire writer pointed out in June 1785.87 Farmers nonetheless resented having to purchase certificates using livestock and crops that otherwise could have been converted into the gold and silver they needed for other obligations ...
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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 |