Producers Versus Capitalists Constitutional Conflict in Antebellum America |
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| Author:
| Freyer, Tony A. |
| Series title: | Constitutionalism and Democracy Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-1496-1 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1994 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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This study focuses on how antebellum constitutional law and principles responded to and shaped producers' appeals for protection from capitalists' predations. Placing the constitutional system's operation in the context of the nation's profound ideological and social conflicts, Tony A. Freyer suggests that the normative force of constitutional values often enabled pro-producer, protectionist policies to be enacted, despite an emerging corporate and mercantile capitalist consensus.
This study focuses on how antebellum constitutional law and principles responded to and shaped producers' appeals for protection from capitalists' predations. Placing the constitutional system's operation in the context of the nation's profound ideological and social conflicts, Tony A. Freyer suggests that the normative force of constitutional values often enabled pro-producer, protectionist policies to be enacted, despite an emerging corporate and mercantile capitalist consensus.