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of society, and that economics were a large part of the Constitution because they would have a direct, positive effect on the framers themselves. However, Henry Steele Commager argued that theory with a theory of his own. Commager was able to prove that even though economics was discussed and was an issue in the writing of the Constitution, politics and power were the major concerns of the framers.
The writers of the Constitution, according to Commager, were more worried about properly distributing governmental powers and control of land than their gaining a personal benefit from raising land value to help themselves. Larger issues such as the distribution of the power which allowed the authority to tax, the raising of armies, regulating commerce, controlling of contracts, enacting bankruptcy legislation, the regulation of western territories, and the making of treaties were resolved before private property values and economics. When Commager looked at the Constitution, he ...

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