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To Form A More Perfect Union

A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution

By: Robert A. McGuire

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To Form A More Perfect Union

A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution

By: Robert A. McGuire

Many important questions regarding the creation and adoption of the United States Constitution remain unresolved. Did slaveholdings or financial holdings significantly influence our Founding Fathers' stance on particular clauses or rules contained in the Constitution? Was there a division of support for the Constitution related to religious beliefs or ethnicity? Were founders from less commercial areas more likely to oppose the Constitution? To Form a More Perfect Union successfully answers these questions and offers an economic explanation for the behavior of our Founding Fathers during the nation's constitutional founding. In 1913, American historian Charles A. Beard controversially argued in his book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States that the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution were less interested in furthering democratic principles than in advancing specific economic and financial interests. Beard's thesis eventually emerged as the standard historical interpretation and remained so until the 1950s. Since then, many constitutional and historical scholars have questioned an economic interpretation of the Constitution as being too narrow or too calculating, believing the great principles and political philosophies that motivated the Founding Fathers to be worthier subjects of study. In this meticulously researched reexamination of the drafting and ratification of our nation's Constitution, Robert McGuire argues that Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, George Mason and the other Founding Fathers did act as much for economic motives as for abstract ideals. To Form a More Perfect Union offers compelling evidence showing that the economic, financial, and other interests of the founders can account for the specific design and adoption of our Constitution. This is the first book to provide modern evidence that substantiates many of the overall conclusions found in Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation while challenging and overturning other of Beard's specific findings. To Form a More Perfect Union presents an entirely new approach to the study of the shaping of the U.S. Constitution. Through the application of economic thinking and rigorous statistical techniques, as well as the processing of vast amounts of data on the economic interests and personal characteristics of the Founding Fathers, McGuire convincingly demonstrates that an economic interpretation of the Constitution is valid. Radically challenging the prevailing views of most historians, political scientists, and legal scholars, To Form a More Perfect Union provides a wealth of new findings about the Founding Fathers' constitutional choices and sheds new light on the motivations behind the design and adoption of the United States Constitution.

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Oxford University Press

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0195349938

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9780195349931

American Government and Politics

A Concise Introduction

By: Robert Singh

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American Government and Politics

A Concise Introduction

By: Robert Singh

Written for all students of politics coming to the subject for the first time, this textbook provides a lively and accessible introduction and guide to all the main features and characteristics of one of the most distinctive and complex political systems in the world.

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364

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SAGE

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0761940944

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9780761940944

The U.S. Constitution and Fascinating Facts about it

By: Robert F. Tedeschi

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The U.S. Constitution and Fascinating Facts about it

By: Robert F. Tedeschi

This fast, fun guide to the most influential legal document ever created includes the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Amendments to the Constitution. The book provides insights on the men who wrote the Constitution, how it was created, and how the Supreme Court has intrepreted it in the two centuries since it was written.

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American Bar Association

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188147321X

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9781881473213

Children and Youth in America: 1600-1865

By: Robert Hamlett Bremner

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Children and Youth in America: 1600-1865

By: Robert Hamlett Bremner

This book, the first of three volumes that will provide the most complete documentary history of public provision for American children, traces the changing attitudes of the nation toward youth during the first two and one half centuries of its history.

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Harvard University Press

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0674116100

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9780674116108

The Tempting of America

By: Robert H. Bork

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The Tempting of America

By: Robert H. Bork

Judge Bork shares a personal account of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination as well as his view on politics versus the law. In The Tempting of America, one of our most distinguished legal minds offers a brilliant argument for the wisdom and necessity of interpreting the Constitution according to the “original understanding” of the Framers and the people for whom it was written. Widely hailed as the most important critique of the nation’s intellectual climate since The Closing of the American Mind, The Tempting of America illuminates the history of the Supreme Court and the underlying meaning of constitutional controversy. Essential to understanding the relationship between values and the law, it concludes with a personal account of Judge Bork’s chillingly emblematic experiences during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on his Supreme Court nomination.

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452

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Simon and Schuster

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1439188866

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9781439188866

One Nation, Indivisible?

A Study of Secession and the Constitution

By: Robert F. Hawes

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One Nation, Indivisible?

A Study of Secession and the Constitution

By: Robert F. Hawes

Is secession legal under the United States Constitution? "One Nation, Indivisible?" takes a fresh look at this old question by evaluating the key arguments of such anti-secession men as Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln, in light of reason, historical fact, the language of the Constitution, and the words of America's Founding Fathers. Modern anti-secession arguments are also examined, as are the questions of why Americans are becoming interested in secession once again, whether secession can be avoided, and how an American state might peacefully secede from the Union.

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Fultus Corporation

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1596820918

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9781596820913

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To Form A More Perfect Union

To Form A More Perfect Union

American Government and Politics

American Government and Politics

The U.S. Constitution and Fascinating Facts about it

The U.S. Constitution and Fascinating Facts about it

Children and Youth in America: 1600-1865

Children and Youth in America: 1600-1865

The Tempting of America

The Tempting of America

One Nation, Indivisible?

One Nation, Indivisible?

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