Madisons role as the agenda maker for the philadelphia convention, and the particular argument i wanted to make is, as madison prepares himself for the convention in the weeks just before it was due to meet in midmay 1787, i think the key item he worked on in his agenda is the idea that a system of federalism based upon the voluntary compliance of the states with the recommendations, the resolutions, the requisitions that came from the Continental Congress, was never going to work. When he reasons about this, he does so in a very interesting way. He combines a set of empirical observations about what had taken place in the mid1770s and lessons americans like him had learned since 1776 by watching how the system functions. He takes a step back, and when he takes a step back, what he really does is to think abstractly, and what we can see at least implicitly again theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea that, because states have different interests and different interests wit
Lets pick up where we left off on wednesday. The main argument i was trying to make then focused on James Madisons role as the agenda maker for the philadelphia convention, and the particular argument i wanted to make is as madison prepares himself, i think the key item he worked on in his agenda is the idea that a system of federalism based upon the voluntary compliance of the states with the recommendations, the resolutions, the requisitions that came from the Continental Congress, was never going to work. When he reasons about this, he does so in a very interesting way. He combines a set of empirical observations about what took had taken place back in the 70s and lessons americans like him had learned since 1776. How washington functions. He takes a step back, and then what he does is to think abstractly, and what we can see a, at least implicitly, theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea that because states have different interests and different interests within each st
Craig fehrman, the author of the new book author in chief. Who was oran follett . Why did he make the claim that he made Abraham Lincoln president . Oran follett was a publisher in ohio. He had is a Printing Firm in ohio. They published lots of different local books. He had the distinct privilege to publish Abraham Lincolns bestselling book. We should probably back up, because a lot of people do not know that he wrote one. When lincoln ran for the senate and lost to Stephen Douglas, they had their famous debate. During the debates, there were a couple of people from newspapers transcribing the debates, writing down shorthand and then a couple of days later, they would print it in papers so people who didnt attend could read it in the newspapers. Lincoln, after he lost the senate race, for most people, the story stopped there. This is breaking news. Lets move on. Lincoln, after he lost the senate race, he worked hard to gather those newspaper transcript. He worked hard. There are at lea
He had the distinct privilege of being the person to publish Abraham Lincolns bestselling book. Guess i should back up a little bit because people dont know that Abraham Lincoln wrote a bestselling book. When lincoln ran for senate and lost to stephen douglas, they had their famous debate. During the debate, there were always a couple of people from newspapers who were transcribing by shorthand and the next day or couple of days later they would be printed newspapers of those who did not attend could read about what happened. News, but lincoln, after he also senate race, work very hard to gather those newspaper transcripts, and i mean worked very hard. There have been nine surviving letters, and he cut them out column by column and pasted them in a scrapbook. You can still see the scrapbook today in the library of congress. Taken a tiny edison pencil, if one paragraph isnt quite accurate, he is cutting it out and putting a different paragraph in its place. Contains 100,000 of lincolns
The author of the new book author in chief. Who was oran follett . Why did he make the claim that he made Abraham Lincoln president . Oran follett was a publisher in ohio. He had is a Printing Firm in ohio. They published lots of different local books. He had the distinct privilege to publish Abraham Lincolns bestselling book. We should probably back up, because a lot of people do not know that he wrote one. When lincoln ran for the senate and lost to Stephen Douglas, they had their famous debate. During the debates, there were a couple of people from newspapers transcribing the debates, writing down shorthand and then a couple of days later, they would print it in papers so people who didnt attend could read it in the newspapers. Lincoln, after he lost the enate race, for most people, the story stopped there. This is breaking news. Lets move on. Lincoln, after he lost the senate race, he worked hard to gather those newspaper transcript. He worked hard. There are at least nine survivin