Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

Name: Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
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ISBN: 9780809080618

ISBN-10: 0809080613

ISBN-13: 9780809080618

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 post-Revolutionary 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…

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/2/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386



Preface


"Evils Which...Produced This Convention": Introduction



The Great Debate



"Bricks Without Straw": Grievances



"The Fault Is All Your Own": Rebuttals



"To Relieve the Distressed": Demands



"Save the People": Requisition



Virtue and Vice



"Who Will Call This Justice?": Quarrels



"Idle Drones": Economics



"The Fate of Republican Govt": Redemption



Unruly Americans



"A Revolution Which Ought to Be Glorious": Disenchantment



"A Murmuring Underneath": Rebellion



"Excess of Democracy"? Reform



Reining In the Revolution



"The House on Fire": Credit



"Divide et Impera": Statecraft



"More Adequate to the Purposes": Revenue



Esau's Bargain



"Take Up the Reins": Ratification



"More Productive and Less Oppressive": Taxes



"As If Impounded": Consolidation


Epilogue: The Underdogs' Constitution


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index