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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 70
... Philadelphia Convention made a conscious decision not to give the new federal charter a Bill of Rights. When the Constitution was sent out to the states for ratification, however, thousands of Americans were aghast that the delegates ...
... Philadelphia. Revolutionaries the world over have cribbed from the Declaration of Independence, but the successful ones, those who manage to overturn the social order and establish regimes of their own, find their inspiration not in the ...
... Philadelphia or The Grand Convention or The Great Rehearsal or The Summer of 1787, it is almost as though the same book has been written over and over again, by different authors, every few years.1 The textbooks and the popular ...
... Philadelphia. Nor was he alone. Another Constitutional Convention delegate, Pennsylvania's Gouverneur Morris, enumerated various kinds of iniquitous state laws he hoped his colleagues would guard against in the new national charter ...
... Virginia. Indeed, in May 1787, just as the Framers were gathering in Philadelphia, a Virginia tax, designed to reduce the enormous debt that the state government had 10 Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution.
Contents
3 | |
19 | |
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 |