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Unruly Americans and the origins of the Constitution / Woody Holton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holton, Woody.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 370 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2007.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-353) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809080618
- 0809080613
- OCLC:
- 82367962
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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