An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

by Charles A. Beard

[719]. Ford, Pamphlets on the Constitution, p. 254.

[720]. See above, p. 205.

[721]. Maryland Journal, March 21, 1788.

[722]. Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. IV, p. 398. For the economics of this, see above, p. 30.

[723]. P. 295.

[724]. “It is currently reported,” says the New Hampshire Spy, on December 7, 1787, “that there are only two men in Virginia who are not in debt, to be found among the enemies to the federal constitution. Debtors, speculators in papers, and states demagogues act consistently in opposing it.”

[725]. Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. IV, p. 584.

[726]. Ibid., p. 577.

[727]. Elliot, Debates, Vol. III, p. 592. See W. C. Ford, “The Federal Constitution in Virginia,” in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for October, 1903.

[728]. Elliot, Debates, Vol. IV, p. 159.