Charles Beard and the Constitution

"e;One could almost use the word momentous, or the word epoch-making though epoch-ending might be more to the point ... I don't see how anyone henceforth can repeat the old cliches which Beard put into circulation forty years ago."e;-Frederick B. Tolles, Swarthmore College."e;American historians, particularly those who have given lectures or written books based on the Beard thesis, ignore Brown's ...