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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... Rhode Island annual revenue needs had seldom exceeded £2,000. Two years after the signing of the Paris peace treaty, however, the assembly imposed a tax with a face value of £20,000 and an actual value (in gold and silver) of about ...
... Rhode Island writer, went further. “To call on the owners of little farms, the tradesmen, labourers and sailors to pay their proportion of a [£20,000] tax, when perhaps there is not half that sum in circulation is something harder than ...
... Rhode Island, acquired Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and United States notes with an aggregate face value in excess of £80,000. By November 1786 his federal bonds alone filled a “small Trunk.”52 Sometimes wealthy Americans ...
... Rhode Island state bonds, a legislative committee noted that nearly half of them were owned by just sixteen people. A Pennsylvania newspaper contended in March 1789 that of the £111,000 that the state government had extracted from ...
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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 |