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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

The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

By: James Robert Bent Hathaway

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The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

By: James Robert Bent Hathaway

Chief among its contents we find abstracts of land grants, court records, conveyances, births, deaths, marriages, wills, petitions, military records (including a list of North Carolina Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Line, 1775-1782), licenses, and oaths. The abstracts derive from records now located in the state archives and from the public records of the following present-day counties of the Old Albemarle region: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington, and the Virginia counties of Surry and Isle of Wight.

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1794

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806304413

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9780806304410

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

A Complete Illustrated Record

By: Robert P. Broadwater

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Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

A Complete Illustrated Record

By: Robert P. Broadwater

In November 1861, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Townsend, adjutant general of the Army, sought to establish an award to motivate and inspire Northern soldiers in the aftermath of the early, morale-devastating defeats of the Civil War. The outcome of Townsend's brainstorm was the Medal of Honor. This reference book offers information about all recipients of the Civil War Medal of Honor, with details of their acts of heroism. The work then organizes recipients by a variety of criteria including branch of service; regiment or naval ship assignment; place of action; act of heroism; state or country of nativity; age of recipient; and date of issuance. Also included is information about the first winners of the medal, the first recipients of multiple medals, posthumously awarded medals and civilian recipients.

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361

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McFarland

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0786491744

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9780786491742

The End is Nigh

British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War

By: Robert Crowcroft

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The End is Nigh

British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War

By: Robert Crowcroft

Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that conflict, Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill depicted himself as a political prophet, exiled into the wilderness prior to 1939 by those who did not want to hear of the growing threats to peace in Europe. Although it is a familiar story, it is one we need to unlearn as the truth is somewhat murkier. The End is Nigh is a tale of relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and the bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War. Journeying from the corridors of Whitehall to the smoking rooms of Parliament, and from aircraft factories to summit meetings with Hitler, the book offers a fresh and provocative interpretation of one of the most crucial moments of British history. It assembles a cast of iconic characters—Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin, and more—to explore the dangerous interaction between high politics at Westminster and the formulation of national strategy in a world primed to explode. In the twenty-first century we are accustomed to being cynical about politicians, mistrusting what they say and wondering about their real motives, but Robert Crowcroft argues that this was always the character of democratic politics. In The End is Nigh he challenges some of the most resilient public myths of recent decades—myths that, even now, remain an important component of Britain's self-image.

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Oxford University Press

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0192556851

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9780192556851

The King of the Alley

William Duer, Politician, Entrepreneur, and Speculator, 1768-1799

By: Robert Francis Jones

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The King of the Alley

William Duer, Politician, Entrepreneur, and Speculator, 1768-1799

By: Robert Francis Jones

Jones offers a full study of the career of late-18th century entrepreneur William Duer, a member of the New York State Convention and the Continental Congress, and assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury when the Federal government was organized. Duer had a role in all the significant changes that occurred during the revolutionary period.

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256

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American Philosophical Society

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0871692023

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9780871692023

I Can't Take Any More Crap!

By: Robert MacGregor

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I Can't Take Any More Crap!

By: Robert MacGregor

There is a pissed-off mood abroad in Britain; the zeitgeist is a bad mood. This book captures that mood. It looks at stuff which irritates us, drives us mad, saps our souls like vampires.

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310

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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190588611X

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9781905886111

Stories from the Camera

Reflections on the Photograph

By: Thomas F. Barrow,Geoffrey Batchen,Van Deren Coke,Sarah Greenough,Christopher Kaltenbach,Robert ParkeHarrison,Beaumont Newhall,Eugenia Parry,Meridel Rubenstein,Richard Rudisill,April M. Watson,Carla Williams,Joel-Peter Witkin

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Stories from the Camera

Reflections on the Photograph

Appendix Two: University of New Mexico Art Museum Directors and Curators -- Bibliography of Related Works -- Index -- Back Cover

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826355897

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9780826355898

Joe Brown's Pets

The Georgia Militia, 1861-1865

By: William Robert Scaife,William Harris Bragg

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Joe Brown's Pets

The Georgia Militia, 1861-1865

By: William Robert Scaife,William Harris Bragg

At the beginning of the Civil War, Georgia ranked third among the Confederate states in manpower resources, behind only Virginia and Tennessee. With an arms-bearing population somewhere between 120,000 and 130,000 white males between the ages of 16 and 60, this resource became an object of a great struggle between Joseph Brown, governor of Georgia, and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Brown advocated a strong state defense, but as the war dragged on Davis applied more pressure for more soldiers from Georgia. In December 1863, the state's general assembly reorganized the state militia and it became known as Joe Brown's Pets. Civil War historians William Scaife and William Bragg have written not only the first history of the Georgia Militia during the Civil War, but have produced the definitive history of this militia. Using original documents found in the Georgia Department of Archives and History that are too delicate for general public access, Scaife and Bragg were granted special permission to research the material under the guidance of an archivist and conducted under tightly controlled conditions of security and preservation control.

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Mercer University Press

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0865548838

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9780865548831

Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1867

By: Robert Hunt

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Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1867

By: Robert Hunt

Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375013701

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9783375013707

Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy

By: Keith Robert Binney

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Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy

By: Keith Robert Binney

An economic and social history of early New South Wales, told through the life stories of pioneer 19th century horsemen. Traces the origin and development of the horse in Australia and a special tribute to Australia's internationally acclaimed thoroughbred expert C. Bruce Lowe.

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064644865X

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9780646448657

The Rogers Family History

By: Robert Page

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The Rogers Family History

By: Robert Page

This is the family tree of the Rogers family of Northam Southampton, showing over thirty generations, but remembering that at 30 generations there is 1,000,000,000 grandparents, making it look like everyone in the UK is interrelated in some small way

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Lulu.com

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1291227393

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9781291227390

Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl

By: Robert Fowler

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Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl

By: Robert Fowler

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382108305

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To Form A More Perfect Union

To Form A More Perfect Union

The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

The End is Nigh

The End is Nigh

The King of the Alley

The King of the Alley

I Can't Take Any More Crap!

I Can't Take Any More Crap!

Stories from the Camera

Stories from the Camera

Joe Brown's Pets

Joe Brown's Pets

Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1867

Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1867

Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy

Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy

The Rogers Family History

The Rogers Family History

Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl

Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl

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