Framing the Constitution Charles A. Beard Excerpted from Charles Beard's Framing the Constitution, in Peter Woll, ed., American Government: Readings and Cases, 11th ed. (New York: Harper Collins, 1993) . In the following essay, which is adapted from The Supreme Court and the Constitution (1912), Charles Beard presents evidence that the framers of the Constitution were less interested in ...

Institute for Historical Review Charles A. Beard: A Tribute Dr. JAMES J. MARTIN Presented at the 1981 Revisionist Conference. I Charles A. Beard was born on 27 November 1874 in Knightstown, Indiana, a small farming community about 35 miles east of Indianapolis. He was the son of a prosperous farmer, and a member of a family in which the intelligent discussion of public affairs was a tradition.