Producers Versus Capitalists

by Tony Allan Freyer and Tony A. Freyer

This study focuses on how antebellum constitutional law and principles responded to and shaped producers' appeals for protection from capitalists' predations. Placing the constitutional system's operation in the context of the nation's profound ideological and social conflicts, Tony A. Freyer suggests that the normative force of constitutional values often enabled pro-producer, protectionist policies to be enacted, despite an emerging corporate and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813914965
• ISBN13: 9780813914961
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"