America's founding and the struggle over economic inequality /
If, as many allege, attacking the gap between rich and poor is a form of class warfare, then the struggle against income inequality is the longest running war in American history. To defenders of the status quo, who argue that the accumulation of wealth free of government intervention is an essentia...
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
[2015]
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| Series: | Constitutional thinking.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface and acknowledgments
- The American Revolution and the ideal of equality
- Class conflict and crisis under the Articles of Confederation
- The constitutional backlash against the "excesses of democracy"
- "Necessary and proper": Alexander Hamilton on the economic powers of the national government
- Constructing the Constitution: How the early Congresses understood their own powers and tackled economic hardship
- "Silently lessening the inequality of property": Thomas Jefferson on the government's role in reducing economic inequality
- "Not charity but a right": Thomas Paine on the justice of a welfare state
- Conclusion.