1st Edition

We the People The Economic Origins of the Constitution

By Forrest McDonald Copyright 1992
460 Pages
by Routledge

460 Pages
by Routledge

455 Pages
by Routledge

Charles A. Bear's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of the document as serving the economic interests of the Framers as members of the propertied class.... Read more
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Chapter One CHARLES ABEARD’S PIONNEER INTERPRETATION OF THE MAKING OF THE CONSTITUTION PART TWO: THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION Chapter Two POLITCAL FACTIONS AND GEOGRAPICAL AREAS REPRESENTED IN THE CONVENTION Chapter Three ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF THE ATTENDING DELEGATES Chapter Four ECONOMIC INTEREST AND THE VOTES OF THE ATTENDING DELEGATES PART THREE: RATIFICATION Chapter Five IN STATES GNEREALLY FAVORABLE TO THE CONSTITUTION PART FOUR: Chapter Six IN STATES DIVIDED ON THE CONSTITUTION; Chapter Seven IN STATES GENERALLY OPPOSED TO THE CONSTITUTION; Chapter Eight SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DATA A REVALUATION OF THE BEARD THESIS OF THE MAKING OF THE CONSTITUTION Chapter Nine ECONOMIC INTEREST GROUPS AND THEIR RELATION TO THE CONSTITUTION Chapter Ten ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION AND THE CONSTITUTION

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McDonald, Forrest