By David Brian Robertson
David Brian Robertson explains how the U.S. structure emerged from an excessive conflict among a daring imaginative and prescient for the nation's political destiny and the tenacious security of its political current. Given a once-in-a-lifetime likelihood to change America's future, James Madison laid ahead of the Constitutional conference a plan for a powerful centralized govt that may conflict for America's long term pursuits. yet delegates from susceptible states resisted this plan, looking as an alternative to keep up kingdom keep watch over over so much of yankee lifestyles whereas including a couple of extra particular powers to the prevailing executive.
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100–16. 26 Like modern politicians who evoke revered, time-tested principles to legitimize actions that shatter the existing political order, the framers used widely accepted political axioms (including century-old arguments used against the British court) to justify the fundamental changes they were proposing. Immediate political exigencies, calculations, and compromises explain the Constitution much more fully than these seventeenth-century ideas. The hard lessons of Confederation experience, not a sentimental attachment to a distant English tradition, caused the delegates to consider national reconstitution a necessity.
P1: KAE 0521845556c01 20 CUNY018-Robertson 0 521 84555 6 June 23, 2005 5:33 Politics and the Constitution ideas, settled the disputes these choices engendered. By expanding the concept of interest beyond personal pecuniary gain and selfish parochialism to include political interests, it is much easier to see how closely the delegates’ ideas and interests aligned with one another in their policy strategies. James Madison’s policy strategy requires an especially careful analysis because Madison’s ideas set the convention’s agenda and shaped its politics.
W. Richard Scott elaborates on this perspective in Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2002). This compelling need to retain policy autonomy also provides additional insight into the state governments’ motives and relationships in the Confederation period. Many scholars have elaborated the notion that politicians have sunk costs and opportunity costs in their institutional prerogatives. For Congress, see David Mayhew, Congress: The Electoral Connection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974), and Morris P.