Righteous anger at the wicked states : the meaning of the founders' Constitution / Calvin H. Johnson.
2005
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Righteous anger at the wicked states : the meaning of the founders' Constitution / Calvin H. Johnson.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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1 online resource (xv, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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The rise of the righteous anger
Madison's vision : requisitions and rights
The superiority of the extended republic
Shifting the foundations from the states to the people
Partial losses
Anti-federalism
False issues : Bill of Rights, democracy, and slavery
The modest and mercantile commerce clause
Creditors, territories, and shaysites
Hamilton's Constitution
The turning of Madison
The end of the constitutional movement.
Madison's vision : requisitions and rights
The superiority of the extended republic
Shifting the foundations from the states to the people
Partial losses
Anti-federalism
False issues : Bill of Rights, democracy, and slavery
The modest and mercantile commerce clause
Creditors, territories, and shaysites
Hamilton's Constitution
The turning of Madison
The end of the constitutional movement.
Summary
This book is a history that explains the adoption of the US Constitution in terms of what the proponents of the Constitution were trying to accomplish. The Constitution was a revolutionary document replacing the confederation mode with a complete three-part national government supreme over the states. The most pressing need was to allow the federal government to tax to pay off the Revolutionary War debts. In the next war, the United States would need to borrow again. The taxes needed to restore the public credit proved to be quite modest, however, and the Constitution went far beyond the immediate fiscal needs. This book argues that the proponents' anger at the states for their recurring breaches of duty to the united cause explains both critical steps and the driving impetus for the revolution. Other issues were less important.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511511141 ebook
9780521852326 (hardback)
9780521757522 (paperback)
9780521852326 (hardback)
9780521757522 (paperback)
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