Author: John Archibald Fairlie
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Category : Constitutions
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Founding Factions
Author: Jeremy C Pope
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132229
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The fundamental importance of the 1787 Constitutional Convention continues to affect contemporary politics. The Constitution defines the structure and limits of the American system of government, and it organizes contemporary debates about policy and legal issues—debates that explicitly invoke the intentions and actions of those delegates to the Convention. Virtually all scholarship emphasizes the importance of compromise between key actors or factions at the Convention. In truth, the deep structure of voting at the Convention remains somewhat murky because the traditional stories are incomplete. There were three key factions at the Convention, not two. The alliance of the core reformers with the slave interests helped change representation and make a stronger national government. When it came time to create a strong executive, a group of small state delegates provided the crucial votes. Traditional accounts gloss over the complicated coalition politics that produced these important compromises, while this book shows the specific voting alignments. It is true that the delegates came with common purposes, but they were divided by both interests and ideas into three crosscutting factions. There was no persistent dominant coalition of reformers or nationalists; rather, there was a series of minority factions allying with one another on the major issues to fashion the compromise. Founding Factions helps us understand the nature of shifting majorities and how they created the American government.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132229
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The fundamental importance of the 1787 Constitutional Convention continues to affect contemporary politics. The Constitution defines the structure and limits of the American system of government, and it organizes contemporary debates about policy and legal issues—debates that explicitly invoke the intentions and actions of those delegates to the Convention. Virtually all scholarship emphasizes the importance of compromise between key actors or factions at the Convention. In truth, the deep structure of voting at the Convention remains somewhat murky because the traditional stories are incomplete. There were three key factions at the Convention, not two. The alliance of the core reformers with the slave interests helped change representation and make a stronger national government. When it came time to create a strong executive, a group of small state delegates provided the crucial votes. Traditional accounts gloss over the complicated coalition politics that produced these important compromises, while this book shows the specific voting alignments. It is true that the delegates came with common purposes, but they were divided by both interests and ideas into three crosscutting factions. There was no persistent dominant coalition of reformers or nationalists; rather, there was a series of minority factions allying with one another on the major issues to fashion the compromise. Founding Factions helps us understand the nature of shifting majorities and how they created the American government.
The Michigan Constitutional Convention
Author: John Archibald Fairlie
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Category : Constitutions
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Publisher:
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Category : Constitutions
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Michigan 1907-1908 ...
Author: Michigan. Constitutional Convention
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Fighting the Death Penalty
Author: Eugene G. Wanger
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628952865
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Michigan is the only state in the country that has a death penalty prohibition in its constitution—Eugene G. Wanger’s compelling arguments against capital punishment is a large reason it is there. The forty pieces in this volume are writings created or used by the author, who penned the prohibition clause, during his fifty years as a death penalty abolitionist. His extraordinary background in forensics, law, and political activity as constitutional convention delegate and co-chairman of the Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment has produced a remarkable collection. It is not only a fifty-year history of the anti–death penalty argument in America, it also is a detailed and challenging example of how the argument against capital punishment may be successfully made.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628952865
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Michigan is the only state in the country that has a death penalty prohibition in its constitution—Eugene G. Wanger’s compelling arguments against capital punishment is a large reason it is there. The forty pieces in this volume are writings created or used by the author, who penned the prohibition clause, during his fifty years as a death penalty abolitionist. His extraordinary background in forensics, law, and political activity as constitutional convention delegate and co-chairman of the Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment has produced a remarkable collection. It is not only a fifty-year history of the anti–death penalty argument in America, it also is a detailed and challenging example of how the argument against capital punishment may be successfully made.
The Michigan Constitutional Conventions of 1835-36
Author: Michigan. Constitutional Convention
Publisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
In the years immediately preceding 1837, when Michigan was at last admitted to the Union, her constitution and State Government were devised by her pioneer inhabitants. The formal proceedings of the Constitutional Conventions of 1835-36 were printed at the time but are now extremely rare volumes. The debates in the Constitutional Conventions were never officially printed, but author Harold M. Dorr has been able to extract many of them from contemporary newspapers and has combined them with the official records in such a way as to present the complete story of how one American state faced and solved the problem of its own organization. Thus, the volume contains materials that the historical student could not gather for himself except at the expenditure of much time and trouble. Dorr is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
Publisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
In the years immediately preceding 1837, when Michigan was at last admitted to the Union, her constitution and State Government were devised by her pioneer inhabitants. The formal proceedings of the Constitutional Conventions of 1835-36 were printed at the time but are now extremely rare volumes. The debates in the Constitutional Conventions were never officially printed, but author Harold M. Dorr has been able to extract many of them from contemporary newspapers and has combined them with the official records in such a way as to present the complete story of how one American state faced and solved the problem of its own organization. Thus, the volume contains materials that the historical student could not gather for himself except at the expenditure of much time and trouble. Dorr is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
Manual of the Constitutional Convention of Michigan, 1907
Author: Michigan. Constitutional Convention
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Constitution-making in Michigan, 1961-1962
Author: Albert Lee Sturm
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Publisher:
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Manual of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Michigan
Author: Michigan. Constitutional Convention
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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The Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Michigan
Author: Michigan. Constitutional Convention
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
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The Michigan Constitutional Conventions, 1835-36
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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