Ep. 66: Woody Holton on Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

In this episode, Luke talks with Woody Holton, author of Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia and Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution. The conversation touches on many topics, including constitutional myths, what motivated the creation of a federal political system, how the new Constitution differed from the (often more representative) state constitutions, and conflicts between creditors and debtors following the Revolutionary War.