's argument here is that he is arguing against political principles, most notably "justice", as a basis for the evolution of law in the United States and, as a result, as the foundation for the U.S. Constitution (1941, p. 8). He contends that such political principles should not be considered without reference to the social and economic elements that determined the thought of the political thinkers who played a role in the development of the Constitution (Beard, 1941, p. 9). He also maintains that this "juristic" interpretation of the evolution of law in America ignores the fact that the law is not applied in a vacuum. In other words, the law has no meaning until it is applied to a given circumstance, which circumstance is necessarily impacted by social and economic considerations (9141, p. 12).
Beard's economic interpretation of history seeks to understand American history by exploring t
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