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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... State legislators.”5 In the last of the Federalist Papers—the series of eighty-five newspaper essays that are widely seen as ... state's representatives paid “too great an attention to popular notions.”7 At least one of those Connecticut ...
... state governments that emerged from the Revolutionary War. Madison's desperate desire to rein in the thirteen state ... state's first constitution. Elected to the founding session of the House of Delegates a short time later, he was ...
... state laws that set him on the road to Philadelphia. Nor was he alone. Another Constitutional Convention delegate, Pennsylvania's Gouverneur Morris, enumerated various kinds of iniquitous state laws he hoped his colleagues would guard ...
... state legislatures printed additional currency. The state governments also had debtors of their own to worry about. In most states thousands of citizens were behind on their taxes. Just like private debtors, delinquent taxpayers had ...
... state and federal governments themselves.23 For men like Madison, writing the Constitution was like appealing an unfavorable jury verdict to a higher court. If the thirteen state legislatures could not muster the fortitude to crack down ...
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 |