Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

Name: Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
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ISBN: 9780809016433

ISBN-10: 0809016435

ISBN-13: 9780809016433

Edition: 2007

Authors: Woody Holton

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Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now venerate. The framers who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 were determined to reverse America's postRevolutionary War slide into democracy. They believed too many middling Americans exercised too much influence over state and national policies. That the framers were only partially successful in curtailing citizen rights is due to the reaction, sometimes violent, of unruly average Americans. If not to…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English