An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

by Charles A. Beard

[69]. M. Carey, The American Museum, for January, 1787, Vol. I, pp. 5 ff.

[70]. The Historical Magazine (1871), Vol. IX, Second Series, pp. 157 ff.

[71]. For an interesting and novel view of the state of commerce under the Articles of Confederation, see Channing, History of the United States, Vol. III, pp. 422 ff.

[72]. Haskins, The Yazoo Land Companies, p. 62. American Historical Association Papers for 1891. See also the lists printed in A. M. Dyer, First Ownership of Ohio Lands (1911).

[73]. Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. IV, p. 678.

[74]. But see Madison’s view as to the chief reason for calling the Convention, below, p. 178.

[75]. A study of the newspapers of the period shows a large number of prominent advocates of the Constitution among the merchants and brokers advertising in the Federalist press.

[76]. Bancroft, op. cit., Book I, Chaps. II-VII; Fiske, Critical Period; Marshall, Life of Washington (1850 ed.), Vol. II, pp. 75 ff.

[77]. The Connecticut Courant, September 10, 1787.

[78]. Bancroft, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 29.