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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... delegates had codified the powers of government but not the rights of citizens. They were even more appalled that as the ratification battle wore on, the supporters of the Constitution, the Federalists, continued to resist the idea of ...
... delegates voted to maintain the strictest secrecy—and thwarted eavesdroppers by keeping the fetid chamber's doors and windows closed and latched. High school textbooks and popular histories of the Revolutionary War locate the origins of ...
... delegates back together. Should every state have the same number of representatives in Congress, or should ... delegate John Francis Mercer asked his colleagues. Was it not “the corruption & mutability of the Legislative 4 Unruly ...
... delegates, affirmed that many Americans—not just himself—were growing “tired of an excess of democracy.”9 Others identified the problem as “aheadstrong democracy,” a “prevailing rage of excessive democracy,” a “republican frenzy ...
... delegate, he went on to become one of the two principal authors of the Federalist Papers, the best-known brief for ... Delegates a short time later, he was defeated the very next year. No matter, for his real passion was for politics ...
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 |