Word: madisonian
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...jumped down his throat. William Howard Taft once attacked Beard as a subverter of the republican (small "r") faith. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago has dismissed the Economic Interpretation as a book hardly worth reading. To the Marxists, Beard has replied that he is a Madisonian in his view of the effect of material considerations on history. To those who have attacked him for reducing history to the level of the human belly he has said, in effect: "See here, I called my book an economic interpretation. I have never believed that history is solely...
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