Book excerpt: Excerpt from Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy One of the most brilliant of the younger historians in the United States, Professor Carl L. Becker, of the Uni versity of Kansas, has prophesied that American history will shortly be rewritten along economic lines. This col lection of essays on the first decade of politics under the Constitution is intended to be a modest contribution to the fulfilment of that prophecy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.