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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... Jefferson, the official American envoy to King Louis XVI of France, to rummage through the bookstalls on the left bank of the Seine and ship him a crateful of works on Renaissance and Enlightenment history and philosophy. We can easily ...
... Jefferson's “literary cargo,” he no longer had any illusions about what he would find in those books. He did not need a crateful of ancient and modern philosophy and history to figure out why the young republic had lost its way, for he ...
... Jefferson, who was then the American envoy to France, might have better luck “raising a sufficient sum” in Europe. Assuring Jefferson there was “prospect of advantage to your self as well as to us,” Madison invited him to 24 Unruly ...
... Jefferson “borrowing say, four or five thousand louis” d'or (French coins named for the king)—oh, and putting up a portion of his own considerable estate as collateral. Madison reminded Jefferson that “scarce an instance has happened in ...
... Jefferson claiming that European “Jews and Judaizing Christians are now Scheeming to buy up all our Continental Notes at two or three shillings in a Pound, in order to oblige us to pay them at twenty shillings a Pound.”82 Most ...
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 |