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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... proposals jockeying for popular support, none was likely to attract a majority. Thus members of Congress would be free to make their own decisions.30 A month before writing Federalist Number 10, Madison privately summarized it ...
... proposed national government inspired in men such as Madison and Alexander Hamilton (the principal authors of the Federalist Papers), neither of whom was a major creditor and neither of whom owned government bonds.6 Today debt and tax ...
... proposed Constitution for its “precautions against the repetition of those practices on the part of the state governments, which have undermined the foundations of property and credit.”8 And Madison, the man who is most often quoted in ...
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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 |