David M. Gold

The Great Tea Party in the Old Northwest: State Constitutional Conventions, 1847-1851 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Supporters of the 21st-century Tea Party movement claim the Boston Tea Party of 1773 as their inspiration, while scholars dismiss the connection. Neither camp pays much attention to the intervening years, and both overlook one of the great populist movements in American history. As David M. Gold demonstrates in The Great Tea Party in the Old Northwest, 19th-century Americans who were fed up with reckless government spending, high taxes, and crony capitalism launched a campaign for smaller, more accountable, more transparent government. The movement culminated in state constitutional conventions in all the states of the Old Northwest, and other parts of the country as well, that rewrote the nation's fundamental law. Citizens and scholars will continue to debate the merits of the Tea Party platform, but with the publication of this book they can no longer ignore the longstanding and continuing significance of Tea Party thought in American history.

"David Gold's 'The Great Tea Party in the Old Northwest' is an incisive, scholarly examination of state constitutional conventions which were held in the five states of the original Northwest TerritoryOhio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsinbetween 1847 and 1851. Closing the gap between the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and the modern-day Tea Party movement, he outlines a pattern of public mistrust of government, whether the government be the British Parliament in the late 18th century, American state legislatures in the mid-19th century, or the federal government in the early 21st century. Gold recounts in great detail the efforts of Tea Partiers of the mid-19th century to curb the power of government with such measures as putting severe limitations on internal improvements, imposing debt ceilings, limiting banking laws and special acts of incorporation, mandating popular election of public officials, and limiting the legislature to biennial rather than annual sessions, to name a few. This book is a must for those interested in the forerunners of the modern Tea Party who fought to streamline state governments in an earlier era of American history."
Herbert James Lewis,
Author of Clearing the Thickets and
The Lost Capitals of Alabama

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: quidpro
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610272957
• Artikelnr.: 72380977

Autorenporträt

David M. Gold is the author or editor of seven books, including 'The Shaping of Nineteenth-Century Law: John Appleton and Responsible Individualism' and 'Democracy in Session: A History of the Ohio General Assembly.' He has also published numerous articles in legal and historical journals. He received a law degree and doctorate in history at The Ohio State University and currently works as an attorney for the Ohio Legislative Service Commission.