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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Woody Holton. Most glaringly, representatives had shown excessive indulgence to debtors and taxpayers. They had refused to force farmers to pay what they owed.21 Insects, drought—even invading armies—fearsome as they all are, have rarely ...
... debtors and taxpayers, they reasoned, they would create a national government that could. The Framers believed the only way to prevent state assemblymen from giving the taxpayer a free ride was to get them out of the business of ...
... debtors and taxpayers. Men like Gerry and Mason fought the Constitution almost entirely because they feared it threatened states' rights and civil liberties. They did not object to the crackdowns on debtors and taxpayers envisioned in ...
... debtors and taxpayers among their constituents, not only defrauding public and private creditors but harming the entire nation. Parts I and II also consider the grievances that came to the state legislatures from essentially the ...
... government would revive the economy, because it would reopen the credit valve. Cracking down on debtors and taxpayers, Madison was convinced, would end the terrible recession that had followed the Revolutionary War. It would do more ...
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 |