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Whoa, I wrote my thesis on this. Interesting to see their take on it. The assertion that the framers didn't understand the flaws inherent in a mixed constituti
by ameister14 11y ago
Whoa, I wrote my thesis on this. Interesting to see their take on it.
The assertion that the framers didn't understand the flaws inherent in a mixed constitutional system is false; Madison wrote about it, actually. He also predicted the failure of the Constitution, but conceded that it was the best they could do and possibly the best that could have been done at the time - without a negative (essentially judicial review, but under the purview of the senate as well as the judiciary) he essentially foresaw a fracturing. Of course, we got Judicial review a few years later, but that's not in the Constitution and is, as a result, a more fragile power.
- npsimons 11y agoI'm glad to see an expert come to the same conclusion that my amateur study of this subject has. The predicate in the first sentence in the article ("The Founders misread history") really rubbed me the wrong way, as I've heard so many people criticize the founders when they haven't even done a tenth of the study and research that the founders had. Perhaps they did misread history, but at least they read history, and lots of it. Hero/idol worship is not a good thing, but claiming the founders were ignorant and backwards is, quite frankly, ignorant and backwards. IMHO, anyone that wants to criticize them should be held to the same high standard that the founders held themselves to, ie, study history, lots of it.