Unruly Americans and the origins of the Constitution

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Author(s): Woody Holton
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Year: 2011

Language: English

Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Contents
Preface
“Evils Which … Produced This Convention”: Introduction
I. The Great Debate
1. “Bricks Without Straw”
2. “The Fault Is All Your Own”
3. “To Relieve the Distressed”
4. “Save the People”
II. Virtue and Vice
5. “Who Will Call This Justice?”
6. “Idle Drones”
7. “The Fate of Republican Govt”
III. Unruly Americans
8. “A Revolution Which Ought to be Glorious”
9. “A Murmuring Underneath”
10. “Excess of Democracy”?
IV. Reining in the Revolution
11. “The House on Fire”
12. “Divide Et Impera”
13. “More Adequate to the Purposes”
V. Esau’s Bargain
14. “Take Up the Reins”
15. “More Productive and Less Oppressive”
16. “As If Impounded”
Epilogue: The Underdogs’ Constitution
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright Page