An economic interpretation of the constitution of the United States
by Charles A. Beard
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About this eBook
- 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.
- 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)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- KF: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence: United States
- Subject
- Constitutional law -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 70677
- Release Date
- April 30, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.AN ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS — CHAPTER I HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION IN THE UNITED STATES
- 4.CHAPTER II A SURVEY OF ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN 1787 — THE DISFRANCHISED — GROUPS OF REAL PROPERTY HOLDERS — GROUPS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY INTERESTS
- 5.CHAPTER III THE MOVEMENT FOR THE CONSTITUTION
- 6.CHAPTER IV PROPERTY SAFEGUARDS IN THE ELECTION OF DELEGATES
- 7.CHAPTER V THE ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION
- 8.CHAPTER VI THE CONSTITUTION AS AN ECONOMIC DOCUMENT — THE UNDERLYING POLITICAL SCIENCE OF THE CONSTITUTION [387] — I. THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT OR THE BALANCE OF POWERS — II. THE POWERS CONFERRED UPON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT — III. RESTRICTIONS LAID UPON STATE LEGISLATURES — THE ECONOMICS OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
- 9.CHAPTER VII THE POLITICAL DOCTRINES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION
- 10.CHAPTER VIII THE PROCESS OF RATIFICATION
- 11.CHAPTER IX THE POPULAR VOTE ON THE CONSTITUTION — FEDERALIST — ANTI-FEDERALIST
- 12.CHAPTER X THE ECONOMICS OF THE VOTE ON THE CONSTITUTION — MEMBERS WHO VOTED IN FAVOR OF RATIFICATION — OPPONENTS OF RATIFICATION
- 13.CHAPTER XI THE ECONOMIC CONFLICT OVER RATIFICATION AS VIEWED BY CONTEMPORARIES — MARSHALL’S ANALYSIS OF THE CONFLICT — THE CONFLICT IN THE STATES — CONCLUSIONS
- 14.INDEX
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