An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

…its most famous expression in An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913). In this book he claimed that the Constitution had been formulated by interest groups whose motivations were just as much personal financial ones as they were political ones. Although American politicians were generally outraged…

…to new works, including Beard’s An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913). Although he did not claim that his was the only possible interpretation of the founding document, he asserted as a fundamental principle that