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20119
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In a 1913 publication, Dr. Charles Beard proposed that the ratification of the United States constitution marked a class division in support of this document with wealthy property owners at the forefront of creating and approving the document while poorer citizens and the working-class were not represented fairly in constitutional debates. To analyze this thesis, the author of this piece compares Beard's findings against the historic data from North Carolina's Hillsboro Convention to look at the economic interests of the state's Federalists.
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20122
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The second half of an article appearing in issue one of this volume continues the demographic and economic analysis of participants at the Hillsboro Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution. Specific interests and desires of the Federalists were covered in the first article and for the second part of the analysis, the author examines the Anti-Federalist present at the convention.
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20126
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The final installment of this piece, the first part appeared in the January issue of this volume and the second in July, covering the economic and social disparities between Federalists and Anti-Federalists participating not in the Hillsboro Convention as covered in the first two articles but the Fayetteville Convention of 1789. The author compares the two opposing sides in attendance but also the Fayetteville attendees against the Hillsboro delegation.
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