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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... taxed property and several specific activities—including tavern-keeping, which may explain why Mathews rose to the forefront of the antitax movement.36 After “binding themselves to stand by each other, in preventing the Sheriff from ...
... taxation and the money supply. The schism was painfully clear at the time. Halfway through his last year at Harvard, John Quincy Adams reported to his mother, Abigail, that poor and wealthy citizens were equally disgusted with the ...
... taxation without representation,” Americans had committed themselves to higher taxes than they had ever faced as British colonists. After the war, taxes in most states remained three or four times higher than colonial levels.30 In the ...
... taxation, which is crushing the poor to death.”47 In February 1786 Thomas Tudor Tucker reminded his colleagues in the South Carolina House of Representatives that if it were not for their obligations to bondholders, they could have ...
... taxation” was the government's desire to satisfy the “desperate band of monopolizers” who had cornered the bond market.79 In New Hampshire, Jeremy Belknap reported, taxpayers were convinced that “the public securities . . . were ...
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 |