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Forrest McDonald's We the People presents a definitive challenge to Charles Beard's influential economic interpretation of the United States Constitution. This superbly researched and documented work by Routledge restores the Constitution as the product of principled and prudential thinking rather than merely serving the economic interests of the Framers. McDonald's volume offers historians and legal scholars a comprehensive reexamination of how the Constitution came into being, moving beyond Beard's radical thesis that dominated American historiography for decades. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the true motivations behind the nation's founding document and the intellectual foundations upon which American democracy was built.

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We the People presents the first major scholarly challenge to Beard's economic interpretation thesis of the Constitution.

Routledge's publication provides superbly researched and documented evidence restoring the Constitution to principled authorship.

The work explores how the Framers operated as prudential men guided by principle, not merely economic self-interest.

This volume fundamentally altered the course of American historical scholarship and constitutional interpretation.

Essential reference for law students, historians and scholars studying the origins and formation of the Constitution.

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30 November 2017
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