My piece is here... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/opinion/tax-bill-gop-democracy.html … Part of the founders' worry about straightforward majoritarian democracy was that it threatens property.
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Graduate students, in my experience, still regularly read and encounter both the work of the Beards and the Beardian school that followed, as well as neo-Beardians like Woody Holton who's work is widely respected. The profession hardly has shouted them down.
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I am a political scientist who teaches H.S. government. I reference Beard a fair amount. That doesn’t refute the point. I even mentioned him in a faculty discussion this morning. I am that fun.
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I feel like there's a mild danger in an overly stark frame pitting "redistribution" versus "small government" "property rights." The pre-tax distribution is also largely a social product.
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I think about this a lot. When you drown the government in the bathtub, you're basically letting not the market but an arbitrary set of powerful people run your life.
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Wasn’t part of the issue that Charles beard went for a very crude formula that constitution reflected personal financial interests of founders?
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Right. I was gonna say: a) Beard’s thesis seemed a tad on the monocausal side i.e. crude, and b) shouted them down seems far too strong a phrase for a theory that still has some has some merit and a few followers, both casual and scholarly.
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