An Economic Interpretation of The Constitution of The ...

An Economic Interpretation of The Constitution of The united states by Charles A. Beard New York The Macmillan Company 1962 Copyright 1913 and 1935 by the Macmillan Company, Copyright renewed 1941 by Charles A. Beard. This electronic edition edited by Gary Edwards Gilgandra, New South Wales Australia , in the year 2001 Introduction to the 1935 Edition. This volume was first issued in 1913 during the tumult of discussion that accompanied the advent of the Progressive party, the split in Republican ranks, and the conflict over the popular election of united states Senators, workmen's compensation, and other social legislation. At that time Theodore Roosevelt had raised fundamental questions under the head of "the New Nationalism" and proposed to make the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies created by railways, the consolidation of industries, the closure of free land on the frontier, and the new position of labour in American economy.

writer to support a plea for an entirely new constitution and by a conservative judge of the United States Supreme Court to justify an attack on a new piece of "social legislation." Some members of the New York Bar Association became so alarmed by the book that they formed a committee and

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