Mount Vernon Bookshop DVD's, CD's and Videos Gifts & Reproductions Furniture & Home Décor Children's Corner In the Garden Christmas at Mount Vernon Gourmet Gifts New! New! New! Sale! Sale! Sale! Teaching Resources Membership Donate Home   New New New Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution By Woody Holton. ISBN-13: 978-0-8090-8061-8. Hardcover with 370 pages including notes and index. Copyright 2007. Finalist for the 2008 George Washington Book Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution’s origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the Framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now venerate. The Framers who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 were determined to reverse America’s post-Revolutionary War slide into democracy. They believed too many middling Americans exercised too much influence over state and national policies. That the Framers were only partially successful in curtailing citizens’ rights is due to the reaction, sometimes violent, of unruly, average Americans. Item #: 14932 Price: $27.00 Qty: Sons of Providence: the Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade and the American Revolution 1812: War with America The Slave Ship: A Human History

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