Charles Beard and Three Barbie Dolls
25 Pages Posted: 8 Mar 2015
Date Written: March 8, 2015
Abstract
In his famous Economic Interpretation, Charles Beard inappropriately imposed a progressive critique of politics and the Supreme Court of his own times upon the adoption of the Constitution. First, Beard argued that the Constitution in apportionment of tax tried to prevent an assault on wealth, whereas the founders were trying to reach wealth by tax under their apportionment formula. Secondly, the Constitution is predominantly a debtor document to restore the ability to borrow and not a suppression of debtors. Federalist 10, finally, is not anti-democratic, but is a proof that the national government would better protect individual rights than the states had, within the ideals of the Revolution.
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