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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... essays that are widely seen as America's premier contribution to political science—Alexander Hamilton praised the ... essay appearing in a Connecticut newspaper in September 1786 complained that the state's representatives paid “too ...
... essay: “Divide et impera, the reprobated axiom of tyranny, is under certain qualifications, the only policy, by which a republic can be administered on just principles.”31 “Divide et impera” is Latin for “divide and conquer.” It appears ...
... essays, Virginians like Mathews expressed grave doubt that the electoral process that had been established in the state constitution of 1776 actually allowed the majority to work its will. In other states, too, farmers and their ...
... essays opposing and supporting a wide range of projects. Meanwhile freemen of all walks of life flooded the legislatures with petitions. After more than two centuries, many of their ideas retain the power to stir the imagination. It ...
... essay appearing in the Pennsylvania Gazette, the Philadelphia newspaper once owned by Benjamin Franklin, Webster affirmed that his initial response to the farmers' revolt that had erupted in Massachusetts during the summer of 1786 ...
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 |