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What were the factors that worked in the drafting of the American Constitution? Do you agree with Beard’s view of the constitution being an Economic Document?
- UPSC 2005
- Origins of Modern Politics
The US Constitution, drafted at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, emerged from a genuine convergence of political necessity, sectional bargaining, and ideological compromise, and while Charles Beard's famous thesis that it was fundamentally an economic document captures real strands of that process, it overstates a single motive at the expense of the Convention's broader constitutional…
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- The Failure of the Articles of Confederation
- Competing Plans and the Great Compromise
- Beard's Economic Interpretation
- Assessing the Thesis
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