Rural Concerns Voiced in Drafting U.S. Constitution

Douglas E. Bowers

Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, 1987, vol. 04, issue 01

Abstract: Farm foreclosures, trade problems, and inflation bedeviled earlier Americans, too. Just after the American Revolution, such problems had a more rural (and more urgent) focus than now. The response then, with some misgivings, was to fashion a blueprint for a stronger central government. The Constitution, though drafted for a primarily rural Nation, has adapted to changing circumstances and fortunes over our Nation's 200-year history.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310460

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