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The eighty-five famous essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay - known collectively as the Federalist Papers - consist of the lens through which we typically view the ideas behind the U.S. Constitution. But we live wrong to take action, creates David Brian Robertson, if we really want to know what the Founders were pondering. On this provocative new account of the framing of the Constitution, Robertson observes that the Federalist Papers represented only 1 aspect in a brutal discussion that was resolved by bargain - in simple fact, multiple compromises. Pulling on numerous major resources, Robertson unravels the highly political dynamics that designed the document. Hamilton and Madison, who hailed from two of the larger state governments, pursued an ambitious vision of a strong government with extensive power. Leaders from smaller state governments envisioned only a few added capabilities, sufficient to improve the disastrous weakness of the Articles of Confederation, however, not so strong concerning threaten the regulating systems within their own states. The two attributes battled for three arduous months; the Constitution emerged piece by part, the product of an evolving web of contracts. Robertson examines each contentious question, including quarrels over the balance between the authorities and the state governments, slavery, war and peace, plus much more. In practically every case, a fractious, piecemeal, and very political process prevailed. In this way, the convention produced a government of separate organizations, each with the will and potential to defend its freedom. Majorities would rule, but the Constitution managed to get very difficult to assemble majorities large enough to let the government take action. Brilliantly argued and deeply investigated, this book changes just how we think of "original intent". With a bracing determination to concern old pieties, Robertson rescues the political realities that created the federal government we know today.
