Charles Beard and the Constitution : : A Critical Analysis / / Robert Eldon Brown.

"One could almost use the word momentous, or the word epoch-making though epoch-ending might be more to the point . I don't see how anyone henceforth can repeat the old cliches which Beard put into circulation forty years ago."-Frederick B. Tolles, Swarthmore College."American hi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1956
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 2121
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • CHARLES BEARD AND THE CONSTITUTION
  • BEARD'S PREFACE
  • CHAPTER I. "HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION IN THE UNITED STATES"
  • CHAPTER II. "A SURVEY OF ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN 1787"
  • CHAPTER III. "THE MOVEMENT FOR THE CONSTITUTION"
  • CHAPTER IV. "PROPERTY SAFEGUARDS IN THE ELECTION OF DELEGATES"
  • CHAPTER V . "THE ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION"
  • CHAPTER VI. "THE CONSTITUTION AS AN ECONOMIC DOCUMENT"
  • CHAPTER VII. "THE POLITICAL DOCTRINES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION"
  • CHAPTER VIII. "THE PROCESS OF RATIFICATION"
  • CHAPTER IX. "THE POPULAR VOTE ON THE CONSTITUTION"
  • CHAPTER X. "THE ECONOMICS OF THE VOTE ON THE CONSTITUTION"
  • CHAPTER XI. "THE ECONOMIC CONFLICT OVER RATIFICATION AS VIEWED BY CONTEMPORARIES"
  • "CONCLUSIONS"
  • INDEX