Gordon S. Wood Quote

Nevertheless, some Southerners like James Monroe still had serious reservations about the compromise, believing that assumption would reduce the necessity for State taxation and thus would undoubtedly leave the national government more at liberty to exercise its powers and increase the subjects on which it will act.

Gordon S. Wood

Nevertheless, some Southerners like James Monroe still had serious reservations about the compromise, believing that assumption would reduce the necessity for State taxation and thus would undoubtedly leave the national government more at liberty to exercise its powers and increase the subjects on which it will act.

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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.