Confounding Father: A Contrarian Look . . .

Produced by Richard Hall

Confounding Father: A Contrarian Look at the U.S. Constitution

Genre: History and Politics
Synopsis: Confounding Father: A Contrarian Look at the U.S. Constitution is the only classroom friendly documentary that tells the story of the constitutional convention from the contrarian viewpoint of anti-federalists.
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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

Feared the unlimited taxing power of the national government

Thought many framers of the constitution were seeking an American empire

Drank too much, talked too much, and annoyed the famous founding fathers

Featuring:

Bill Kauffman - Forgotten Founder Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin

Gordon Wood - The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Pulitzer Prize)

Pauline Maier - Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

Woody Holton - Unruly Americans & the Origins of the Constitution

Paul Finkelman - Slavery & the Founders

Murray Dry - The Complete Antifederalist (Co-Editor)
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