An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

by Charles A. Beard

[619]. See above, p. 248.

[620]. See below, p. 299.

[621]. Libby, op. cit., pp. 50 ff.

[622]. Above, Chapter V.

[623]. Massachusetts and the Federal Constitution (Harvard Studies).

[624]. Sectionalism in Virginia.

[625]. Libby, op. cit., pp. 7–8.

[626]. Ibid., p. 11.

[627]. Data given here are from State Papers: Finance, Vol. I, p. 442. It should be remembered that the figures would have been relatively different in 1787 on account of the union of Vermont with New Hampshire, but they are doubtless roughly correct.

[628]. Some painstaking research in the Treasury Department would produce valuable data toward the solution of this problem.