An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States by Beard

"An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States" by Charles A. Beard is a history book published in 1913. It argues that the Founding Fathers designed the Constitution primarily to protect their personal financial interests rather than purely democratic ideals. Through examination of tax records, property holdings, and biographical sources, Beard contends the Constitutional Convention was attended by a wealthy elite seeking to safeguard their investments and economic standing, challenging traditional views of America's founding document. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948
Title An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Original Publication United States: The Macmillan company, 1914.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Economic_Interpretation_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States
Credits Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 49.1 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class JK: Political science: Political inst. and pub. Admin.: United States
LoC Class KF: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence: United States
Subject Constitutional history -- United States
Subject United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865
Subject United States. Constitution -- Economic aspects
Subject Economic liberties (U.S. Constitution)
Subject Constitutional law -- Economic aspects -- United States
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EBook-No. 70677
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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