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The U.S. Constitution: 200 Years of Anti-Federalist, Abolitionist, Feminist, Muckraking, Progressive, and Especially Socialist Criticism - Table of Contents <DIALECTICAL MARXISM: The Writings of Bertell Ollman

The U.S. Constitution: 200 Years of Anti-Federalist, Abolitionist, Feminist, Muckraking, Progressive, and Especially Socialist Criticism

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bertell Ollman 1

Prehistory of the Constitution
1. "Shays' Rebellion" Howard Zinn 13
2. "The Articles of Confederation" Merrill Jensen 18
3. "The Establishment of a National Union" Louis M. Hacker 25
4. "The United States in the World-Economy" John Agnew 29
What Actually Happened in Philadelphia
1. "The Spirit of the Constitution: A Progressive Introduction" J. Allen Smith 37
2. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" Charles A. Beard 39
3. "The Antifederalists" Jackson Turner Main 60
4. Selections from Anti-Federalist Critics 73
  1. Patrick Henry 73
  2. Mercy Otis Warren 79
  3. Brutus 85
  4. "None of the Well-Born Conspirators" 89
5. "The Constitution and Slavery" Frederick Douglass 91
6. "A Compact With Hell" William Lloyd Garrison and the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society 96
7. "Slavery and the Founding Fathers" W. E. B. Du Bois 97
8. "Women and the Framers" Sylvia A. Law 106
9. "The Voice of Madison" Daniel De Leon 110
10. "Social Forces and the Constitution" Algie Simons 116
11. "The Founding Finaglers" Gustavus Myers 125
12. "The People's Two Bodies: The Declaration and the Constitution" Sheldon S. Wolin 130
Struggles over Constitutional Interpretation and Practice
1. "The Constitution as an Elitist Document" Michael Parenti 141
2. "The Second American Revolution" Gore Vidal 163
3. "Court over Constitution" Ferdinand Lundberg 187
4. "The Second American Revolution" Eric Foner 201
5. "The Third American Revolution" I. F. Stone 208
6. "Corporations Are Not Persons" Ralph Nader and Carl J. Mayer 214
7. "The Second Reconstruction: Assessing the Civil Rights Movement" Manning Marable 217
8. "Freedom of Speech" David Kairys 223
9. "Women and the Constitution" Joan Hoff 231
10. "On the Bicentennial of the Constitutiion: A Marxist View" Herbert Aptheker 247
11. "Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident" Howard Zinn 261
Toward a More Adequate Theory of the U.S. Constitution
1. Law and Constitutionalism in Capitalist Society: Excerpts from the Writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 267
2. "Theses on the Capitalist State" Bertell Ollman 273
3. "The Development of Legal Ideology" Michael Tigar with Madeleine R. Levy 279
4. "The Rule of Law" E. P. Thompson 285
Appendices
1. "Ruling Class Intent" Woodrow Wilson 297
2. "Economic Bill of Rights" Franklin D. Roosevelt298
3. "A Bicentennial View from the Supreme Court" Thurgood Marshall 300
4. Constitution of the United States of America and Amendments 306
Index 329