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by Roger H. Brown

Echoing the words of James Madison, written shortly before the 1787 Constitutional Convention, that "the real friends to the Revolution" must move to frame a new system of centralized republican government that "will perpetuate the Union, and redeem the honor of the Republican name, " Brown shows how the Constitution captured both the capitalistic goals of its upper-class framers and the revolutionary generation's desire to build a republic that would lead the world to a better future.


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Why were Federalists at the 1787 Philadelphia convention--ostensibly called to revise the Articles of Confederation--so intent on scrapping the old system and drawing up a completely new frame of government?

In Redeeming the Republic, Roger Brown focuses on state public-policy issues to show how recurrent outbreaks of popular resistance to tax crackdowns forced state governments to retreat from taxation, propelling elites into support for the constitutional revolution of 1787. The Constitution, Brown contends, resulted from upper-class dismay over the state governments' inability to tax effectively for state and federal purposes. The Framers concluded that, without a rebuilt, energized central government, the confederation would experience continued monetary and fiscal turmoil until republicanism itself became endangered.

A fresh and searching study of the hard questions that divided Americans in these critical years and still do today, Redeeming the Republic shows how local failures led to federalist resolve and ultimately to a totally new frame of central government.

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TWO MONTHS after the federal Constitution was published but before any of the states had ratified, a member of the Connecticut clergy described the document's fundamental reconstitution of the structure and powers of the American Confederation.

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  • Title Redeeming the Republic: Federalists, Taxation, and the Origins of the Constitution
  • Author Roger H. Brown
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-02-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780801863554 / 0801863554
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.01 x 6.02 x 0.89 in (22.89 x 15.29 x 2.26 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92028958
  • Dewey Decimal Code 336.200

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Roger H. Brown is professor emeritus in the Department of History at the American University. He is the author of The Republic in Peril: 1812 and The Struggle for the Indian Stream Territory.

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