Oligarchies, Monopolies, and the Constitution
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The Rise of the Anti-Block Constitution
In your chapter on the anti bellum constitution, talk about at the rise of jacksonian democracy. You say both the whigs and the jacksonians alike shared the belief that when it came to constitutional political economy, they were primary interpretive actors or expositors of the constitution. The only way to counter the power of concentrated wealth as it was emerging in the new nation was oi mobilized the ordinary citizens against it.
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