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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... debt with money that was actually worth only £1. Even after peace was declared in 1783, seven state legislatures ... debts they had amassed during the war. When Congress and the states failed to redeem the war bonds or even pay interest ...
... home state of 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.
... debt or taxes,” the Greenbrier associators “sent copies of the association paper to the other back counties.”37 It was also reported that they had made a still more radical agreement. When the county justices gathered for their August ...
... debt.39 Betraying along-standing prejudice against New England Puritans, one of Adonijah Mathews's fellow Virginians deduced from “the Length & sound of his christian name” that he “must have come from New-England.”40 As the association ...
Woody Holton. Madison on the question of tax and debt relief were bound to oppose the Constitution he championed. In fact many Americans who spent the ... debt relief using established political 15 “Evils Which . . . Produced This Convention”
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 |