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1 Brands!
- a text like the declaration of indipendance in the sense of the
influence it exerted over the american populace
- wealth of nations, adam smith
- (WoN -> capatalism) = (DoI -> democracry)
- natural law vs. self interest
- ofc, takes time to grow
- america is where they have grown best, forming the archetypal democratic democracy
"yet the dual manifestos of 1776 were also dueling manifestos."
- argues, democracy depends on euqality, whereas capitalism depends on
inequality
- uh…
- argues, democracy depends on euqality, whereas capitalism depends on
inequality
- inequality is a nessesity for capatalism, not merely a byproduct
- tension between democracy and capatalism -> characterized america
- argues, andrew jackson embodied democracy
- but capatalism fought back in the civil war
- money: the philosiphers stone of modern capitalism
- so morgan was important!
- created the capitalist revolution?
- so morgan was important!
- effects:
- courts reinterpeted the constituion in capitalisms favor
- created inequality
"by the century's end the imperatives of capitalism mattered more to the daily existence of most americans than the principles of democracy."