Heckelman, Jac C.; Dougherty, Keith L. - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 4 (2010) 2, pp. 207-228
Charles Beard ([1913] 2004) argued that the U.S. Constitution was created to advance the interests of people who owned personalty, particularly those at the Constitutional Convention. Because delegate votes on individual clauses at the Constitutional Convention were not publicly recorded, prior...