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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
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In “The Birth of the Republic, 1763—89”, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that the founding fathers' political philosophy was not grounded in theory, but rather grew out of their own immediate needs, Morgan paints a vivid portrait of how the founders' own experiences shaped their...
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Language
English
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Rare-book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, go on a treasure hunt through time. They are hunting for a stolen copy of a draft of the Constitution. This draft has marginal notes on it that spells out the intentions of the founders of the Constitution. The lost Constitution could change the history of America, and it must be found before the wrong people find it and destroy it.
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Publisher
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
The Antifederalists come alive in this state-by-state analysis of politics during the Confederation and the debates over the enlargement of Congressional powers prior to the formation of the Constitution. On the one side were small and middle-class farmers who subscribed to a libertarian tradition founded in a distrust of power, a preference for local authority, and a concept of private rights that defined liberty against government. On the other,...
