America's Founding and the Struggle over Economic Inequality /

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"The causes of economic inequality and the problems growing inequality poses for our political system have been major concerns in America particularly since the Great Recession of 2008. This is not new to American politics; Clem Fatovic shows how economic inequality was a major concern of Ameri...

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Main Author: Fatovic, Clement, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wohlfahrtsstaat
Lohn
Gerechtigkeit
Gleichheit
Social policy.
Income distribution.
Equality.
Social conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Constitutions.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Revenu > Repartition > États-Unis.
Income distribution > United States.
Equality > United States.
USA
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1775-1783 (Revolution)
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1865.
États-Unis > Politique sociale.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
United States > Social policy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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