Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - Woody Holton
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American History
 American Revolution
 Constitution
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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. 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’ 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.
©2007 Woody Holton (P)2018 Tantor
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| Creation Date: | Wed, 24 May 2023 11:39:15 +0200 |
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| 01 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - Preface.mp3 20.9 MBs | |
| 02 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - Part I - The Great Debate - 1 - Bricks Without Straw.mp3 32.87 MBs | |
| 03 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - 2 - The Fault Is All Your Own.mp3 23.76 MBs | |
| 04 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - 4 - Save the People.mp3 23.42 MBs | |
| 05 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - Part II - Virtue and Vice - 5 - Who Will Call This Justice?.mp3 28.76 MBs | |
| 06 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - 7 - The Fate of Republican Govt.mp3 20.36 MBs | |
| 07 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - Part III - Unruly Americans - 8 - A Revolution Which Ought to Be Glorious.mp3 23.12 MBs | |
| 08 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - 9 - A Murmuring Underneath.mp3 22.41 MBs | |
| 09 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - 10 - Excess of Democracy? Reform.mp3 18.66 MBs | |
| 10 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - Part IV Reining In the Revolution - 11 - The House On Fire.mp3 25.46 MBs | |
| 11 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - 12 - Divide et Impera.mp3 31.44 MBs | |
| 12 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - Part V - Esau’s Bargain - 14 - Take Up the Reins.mp3 34.25 MBs | |
| 13 - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - 16 - As If Impounded.mp3 30.68 MBs | |
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This post has one comment with rating of 5/5
May 24th, 2023
Well, depends where the emphasis is placed. A balanced instrument, with a concentration on prevention of tyranny was the focus.
The new country had no army, no power to tax, no law-making body that all states respected, & no direction or set of interests that united them. They were the States of America, but not the United States. Without a national govt, they were likely to dissolve into anarchy. A republic was the best solution. The system of checks & balances harnesses humans’ natural tendency to hold onto power, in a way that protects citizens from tyranny.
The Federalist Papers are brilliantly illuminating of the key issues.
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