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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... United States of America First edition, 2007 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Holton, Woody. Unruly Americans and the origins of the Constitution / Woody Holton. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8090-8061-8 ...
... United States's first federal charter—which lasted from 1781 to 1789. Once all three columns have been labeled, students are often struck by the same thing that astonished me when I first began this study of the origins of America's ...
... United States must begin by asking why it was that, scarcely a decade after the free inhabitants of thirteen British colonies proclaimed each of them an autonomous state, they decided to meld those thirteen sovereignties together and ...
... United States during the Confederation period was diametrically opposed to the viewpoint that men like James Madison were just then expressing as they themselves rebelled against the state governments of the 1780s by writing the ...
... United States during the war, others called attention to the extreme scarcity of hard currency and pleaded with their representatives to give them a mechanism—paper money—with which to pay their taxes and debts. These were not trivial ...
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 |