Word: nineteenth
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From an economic standpoint, integration is a worthy goal, but the methods of bringing it about are very complex and controversial. For instance, in the nineteenth century abolishing tariffs would automatically integrate economics. But such a move is now useless when nations have other rigid controls on trade. Also integration could never be effective as long as neighboring countries could pursue separate fiscal policies...
...American Mind begins with a jaunty essay on "The Nineteenth-Century...
...takes its impetus from the Revolution and the formation of the Constitution (which he interprets politically as Beard does economically). He then goes on to trace the development of a second, "unwritten" constitution-a compound of political compromises and "bargains" which withstood every problem of national life in the nineteenth century but one, the Civil...