Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Holton, Woody
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9780809016433, Publication Date: Wed, October 1, 2008, Type: Paperback ,
join & start selling
description
1

Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution

Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now venerate. The framers who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 were determined to reverse America's post-Revolutionary War slide into democracy. They believed too many middling Americans exercised too much influence over state and national policies. That the framers were only partially successful in curtailing citizen rights is due to the reaction, sometimes violent, of unruly average Americans.

If not to protect civil liberties and the freedom of the people, what motivated the framers? In Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, Holton provides the startling discovery that the primary purpose of the Constitution was, simply put, to make America more attractive to investment. And the linchpin to that endeavor was taking power away from the states and ultimately away from the people. In an eye-opening interpretation of the Constitution, Holton captures how the same class of Americans that produced Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts (and rebellions in damn near every other state) produced the Constitution we now revere.

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

Manger

by Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Hardcover /Hardcover

$12.75

Sinful Hands

by Smith, T. L.

Paperback /Paperback

$13.72

Understanding Your Call Into the ...

by Mason, Ray A.

Paperback /Paperback

$9.37

listens & views

BARTERED BRIDE SUITE / FROM ...

by SMETANA / SIMON / LSO

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$12.25

C'MON & SWIM (UK)

by FREEMAN,BOBBT

COMPACT DISC

$12.99

BLIND FAITH (RMST)

by BLIND FAITH

COMPACT DISC

$12.99

ENCORE OF GOLDEN HITS

by LYNN,VERA

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$6.49

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.