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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... Writers and speakers often expressed their anxiety about the changes occurring in their fellow Americans by calling them “unruly steeds.”11 To Silas Deane it seemed that “the reins of Government” were held with too “feeble a hand.”12 ...
... writer declared that “the people are taxed quite up to their bearing.”28 In neighboring New York the state government was able to obtain more than a third of its revenue from a nearly painless duty on European manufactured goods ...
... writer, went further. “To call on the owners of little farms, the tradesmen, labourers and sailors to pay their proportion of a [£20,000] tax, when perhaps there is not half that sum in circulation is something harder than being forced ...
... writer blamed the “great possessors of what is called publick securities,” intent on “the carving of the loaves and fishes,” for the “abominable system of enormous taxation, which is crushing the poor to death.”47 In February 1786 ...
... writer, believed that “the efficient cause of taxation” was the government's desire to satisfy the “desperate band ... writers accused them of being Jews. In attacking his newspaper adversary, a New Hampshire essayist named “Observator ...
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 |