Confounding Father: A Contrarian View of the U.S. Constitution
This documentary tells the story of the constitutional convention from the contrarian viewpoint of the opponents of the document. It serves as a timely reexamination of the U.S. political system and features Luther Martin, a Maryland delegate to the 1787 constitutional convention who opposed the continuation of the slave trade and the three-fifths clause. He also feared the unlimited taxing power of the national government, and thought many framers of the constitution were seeking an American empire.
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Confounding Father - Episode 1
Directed by Richard R. Hall • Documentary • With Gloria Browne-Marshall, Constitutional Law Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Murray Dry - The Complete Antifederalist (Co-Editor) Paul Finkelman - Slavery & the Founders Woody Holton - Unruly Americans & the Origins of the Constitu...
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Confounding Father - Episode 2
Directed by Richard R. Hall • Documentary • With Gloria Browne-Marshall, Constitutional Law Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Murray Dry - The Complete Antifederalist (Co-Editor) Paul Finkelman - Slavery & the Founders Woody Holton - Unruly Americans & the Origins of the Constitu...
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Confounding Father - Episode 3
Directed by Richard R. Hall • Documentary • With Gloria Browne-Marshall, Constitutional Law Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Murray Dry - The Complete Antifederalist (Co-Editor) Paul Finkelman - Slavery & the Founders Woody Holton - Unruly Americans & the Origins of the Constitu...
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Confounding Father - Episode 4
Directed by Richard R. Hall • Documentary • With Gloria Browne-Marshall, Constitutional Law Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Murray Dry - The Complete Antifederalist (Co-Editor) Paul Finkelman - Slavery & the Founders Woody Holton - Unruly Americans & the Origins of the Constitu...
