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User Review - SGTCat - LibraryThingMy rating is probably partially the result of the fact that the copy I read, the Kindle eBook copy, was horribly formatted. It was a straight-up scan, with footnotes mixed directly into the text and ... Read full review
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User Review - encephalical - LibraryThingFascinating deconstruction of the motivations of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Beard carries his thesis that the US Constitution did not originate out of high-minded, disinterested ... Read full review
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| Title | An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States |
| Author | Charles Austin Beard |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1921 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jul 19, 2008 |
| Length | 330 pages |
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