Gordon S. Wood Quote
Consequently, as Samuel Chase pointed out in the Maryland ratifying convention, the states would end up without power, or respect and despised—they will sink into nothing, and be absorbed in the general government. Some Federalists actually hoped for this to happen—for the states eventually to be reduced to mere administrative units of the national government.
Gordon S. Wood
Consequently, as Samuel Chase pointed out in the Maryland ratifying convention, the states would end up without power, or respect and despised—they will sink into nothing, and be absorbed in the general government. Some Federalists actually hoped for this to happen—for the states eventually to be reduced to mere administrative units of the national government.
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About Gordon S. Wood
Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992). His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969) won the 1970 Bancroft Prize. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.