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Book Reviews Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman Courtesy of Random House . Reviewed by Colonel Alan Cate, USA, Retired B y the mid-1780s, many Americans believed the newly independent United States was dangerously adrift. Under the Articles of Confederation, the loose form of New York, NY: Random House, national government adopted during the Revolution, the 2009 country seemed powerless to confront its enormous prob- 514 pages lems. Mired in depression, and experiencing a serious $ currency drain and rampant inflation, the Confederation Congress in New York could regulate neither trade nor money.
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