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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... William Plumer of New 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 ...
... William Manning of Billerica, Massachusetts, was a tavern-keeper. He was also a farmer who had fought at the Battle of Concord. In a 1790 essay the forty-twoyear-old Manning contended that every society consists of two great interests ...
... William and Sarah Veasey.57Three days later, in her own letter to Tufts, Abigail pleaded with him not to buy the farm. “Veseys place is poverty,” she wrote, “and I think we 34 Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution.
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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 |