Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: How Hamilton’s Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South

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The sequel to the bestselling An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, this volume makes a speciality of the nation’s early political history from the adoption of the Constitution throughout the end of the Jefferson administration. This period saw the upward thrust and triumph of Jefferson’s agrarian, slave-holding South over the mercantile-oriented urbanism of Hamilton’s North, setting the stage for the ongoing clash between rural and urban The united states, a subject still highly relevant within the twenty-first century.
Beard defines the early period of American governance in relation to the conflict between agrarianism and fluid capital that dominated the campaign for the ratification of the Constitution. He traces this dispute across three decades into its manifestations as Federalism as opposed to Republicanism and later into Federalism and Jeffersonian Democracy. Broad in scope, Beard’s view places the struggles inside the context of social and cultural developments, and his interpretation provides a very good resource for students of the historical background of American politics.

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