Preface | p. ix |
"Evils Which...Produced This Convention": Introduction | p. 3 |
The Great Debate | |
"Bricks Without Straw": Grievances | p. 21 |
"The Fault Is All Your Own": Rebuttals | p. 46 |
"To Relieve the Distressed": Demands | p. 55 |
"Save the People": Requisition | p. 65 |
Virtue and Vice | |
"Who Will Call This Justice?": Quarrels | p. 85 |
"Idle Drones": Economics | p. 96 |
"The Fate of Republican Govt": Redemption | p. 108 |
Unruly Americans | |
"A Revolution Which Ought to Be Glorious": Disenchantment | p. 127 |
"A Murmuring Underneath": Rebellion | p. 145 |
"Excess of Democracy"? Reform | p. 162 |
Reining In the Revolution | |
"The House on Fire": Credit | p. 179 |
"Divide et Impera": Statecraft | p. 199 |
"More Adequate to the Purposes": Revenue | p. 213 |
Esau's Bargain | |
"Take Up the Reins": Ratification | p. 227 |
"More Productive and Less Oppressive": Taxes | p. 239 |
"As If Impounded": Consolidation | p. 254 |
Epilogue: The Underdogs' Constitution | p. 272 |
Notes | p. 279 |
Acknowledgments | p. 355 |
Index | p. 357 |
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