PSC 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mixed Government, Montesquieu, Regular Representation
10 Sep 2020
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Ratification debates are probably the most consequential debates in american history, being heavily involved in constitutional deliberation and constitutional politics. After it was written, the constitution was sent back to the confederation congress. It was then sent out for ratification by the people gathered in state conventions: this then spurred the ratification debates. The opposing arguments for and against the constitution varied widely dictating an alternative vision: there was no set agreed upon philosophy, people were just generally federalists or antifederalists. The most important, nuanced, sophisticated, original, and innovate arguments in support of the constitution. 85 articles written in newspapers in new york in a two year period starting in september 1787: written by 3 men under the pseudonym publius (madison & jay) Publius was the name of one of the founders of the roman republic, proving their continuous portrayal of the themselves in the founding of a great republic: alexander hamilton.
