Why were Federalists at the 1787 Philadelphia
convention--ostensibly called to revise the Articles of
Confederation--so intent on scrapping the old system and drawing up
a completely new frame of government?
In "Redeeming the Republic," Roger Brown focuses on state
public-policy issues to show how recurrent outbreaks of popular
resistance to tax crackdowns forced state governments to retreat
from taxation, propelling elites into support for the
constitutional revolution of 1787. The Constitution, Brown
contends, resulted from upper-class dismay over the state
governments' inability to tax effectively for state and federal
purposes. The Framers concluded that, without a rebuilt, energized
central government, the confederation would experience continued
monetary and fiscal turmoil until republicanism itself became
endangered.
A fresh and searching study of the hard questions that divided
Americans in these critical years and still do today, "Redeeming
the Republic" shows how local failures led to federalist resolve
and ultimately to a totally new frame of central government.
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