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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... farmers to pay what they owed.21 Insects, drought—even invading armies—fearsome as they all are, have rarely been what rural Americans dread most. That distinction belongs to the farmers' creditors—not only the men and women who have ...
... farmers by issuing paper money or by “impairing the obligation of contracts” using any of the other devices they had discovered during the 1780s. As a result of the protection that Section 10 afforded creditors, more people proclaimed ...
... farmers in Greenbrier County (now part of West Virginia) into rebellion. The leader of the revolt was a local tavern-keeper named Adonijah Mathews.32 The war had brought tremendous hardship to men like Mathews, but the peace that ...
... farmers' paradise, many of the farmers themselves complained that they could redress their many grievances only by taking up arms. During the Revolutionary War, Madison's and Mathews's factions had both 12 Unruly Americans and the ...
... farmers and their supporters complained that the internal revolution had not gone far enough. Like the farmers of Greenbrier County, they often resorted to rebellion, expressing in the process a view of American politics that could ...
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 |