Commonwealth

A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861

Oscar Handlin

Mary Flug Handlin

    Abbreviations

    Chapter

    1. Foundations of Political Power
    2. Consolidation of Political Power
    3. To Encourage Industry and Economy
    4. The State in Association
    5. Commonwealth and Corporation
    6. The Law of Private Rights in a Commonwealth
    7. Acquiescence as State Policy
    8. Social Disorganization and Economic Policy
    9. Liberal Humanitarianism
    10. The Reform State

    Appendixes

    A. Statistics of the Constitutional Convention of 1780
    B. Representation in the General Court, 1780-1820
    C. Letter to the President and Directors of the Banks in Boston
    D. Opinion of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, on the Life of the Corporation, 1802
    E. Edward Everett on the Public Debt
    F. Artisan Grievances Against the Corporation
    G. Memoranda on the Role of Government in American Economic Development

    Note on the Sources

    Index

  • Cover: Commonwealth

Oscar Handlin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is the editor of This Was America.

Mary Handlin is Research Editor, Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America, Harvard University.