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Book

Unruly Americans and the origins of the Constitution

Call Number

  • 342.73 H7588 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Hill and Wang, c2007.

Physical Description

xi, 370 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Bricks without straw : grievances
  • The fault is all your own : rebuttals
  • To relieve the distressed : demands
  • Save the people : requisition
  • Who will call this justice? : quarrels
  • Idle drones : economics
  • The fate of republican govt : redemption
  • A revolution which ought to be glorious : disenchantment
  • A murmuring underneath : rebellion
  • Excess of democracy? : reform
  • The house on fire : credit
  • Divide et impera : statecraft
  • More adequate to the purposes : revenue
  • Take up the reins : ratification
  • More productive and less oppressive : taxes
  • As if impounded : consolidation.

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