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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... creditors with property— even pine barrens and “old Horses”—instead of hard money (gold and silver).22 In some cases public officials had temporarily shut down the legal system that was the neglected creditor's only recourse. Worst of ...
... creditors, more people proclaimed that clause “the best in the Constitution” than any other in the document.24 Section 10 was even touted as “the soul of the Constitution.”25 Virginia governor Edmund Randolph pronounced Section 10 “a ...
... creditors and tax collectors. But Mathews did not escape to the West. He announced instead that he was headed to Richmond, the state capital, where he apparently expected to use the threat of an expanding insurrection to force ...
... creditors but harming the entire nation. Parts I and II also consider the grievances that came to the state legislatures from essentially the opposite direction—from Americans who believed the assemblymen had damaged American society by ...
... creditors, investors in government securities, or both. He believed that they supported the Constitution because without it, they would never get their money. Bondholders and private creditors were, in fact, among the Constitution's ...
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 |