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The Debate Over An Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution: Where Has Beard Taken Us And Where Are We After Mcguire’S “New” Interpretation?, Joseph Silvia
Joseph Silvia
The Debate over an Economic Interpretation of the Constitution: Where has Beard taken us and where are we after McGuire’s “New” Interpretation? Since 1913, developing a complete analysis on the creation of the American Constitution necessarily requires a thorough consideration of economics. Until Charles A. Beard published his An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913), the standard account of the Founding Era was that the Framers acted out of idealism – a disinterested, public-regarding impulse to promote democratic ideals for which the Revolution was fought and the American Republic was founded. Beard challenged this idealistic view …