Note 385 — Chapter VI · THE CONSTITUTION AS AN ECONOMIC DOCUMENT

From this point of view, the old conception of the battle at Philadelphia as a contest between small and large states—as political entities—will have to be severely modified. See Professor Farrand’s illuminating paper on the so-called compromises of the Constitution in the Report of the American Historical Association, 1903, Vol. I, pp. 73 ff. J. C. Welling, “States’ Rights Conflict over the Public Lands,” ibid. (1888), pp. 184 ff.