We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution

McDonald, Forrest

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“…They concluded that both personal economic interests and constituent interests affected delegate voting behavior at the margin. Heckelman and Dougherty (2007) presented a detailed critique of the inferences made by McDonald (1958) and Ohsfeldt (1986, 1997), re-inferred the same 16 votes using primary source data, and concluded that personal interests were more important than constituent interests. Although these more recent studies represent the most advanced empirical work on the motivation of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention, they do not include any issues related to slavery.…”

Section: Motivation Of the Framersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Beard's view dominated historical interpretations of the Constitution until the midtwentieth century, when historians wrote detailed critiques of the Beard thesis (Brown 1956;McDonald 1958). As part of his study, McDonald (1958) inferred the voting patterns of delegates for sixteen separate Convention votes (none of which were related to slavery).…”

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“…As part of his study, McDonald (1958) inferred the voting patterns of delegates for sixteen separate Convention votes (none of which were related to slavery). Without presenting any statistical analyses, he concluded that "the facts did not substantiate [Beard's] assumptions" (McDonald 1958: 400).…”

Section: Motivation Of the Framersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…McGuire and Ohsfeldt used the data originally gathered by McDonald (1958) and added inferences for delegates not in attendance. By applying econometric methods to this expanded set of delegates on the same sixteen votes, they were able to systematically investigate whether delegates acted upon their personal economic interests when constituent interests and delegate ideology were controlled.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To infer delegate level votes, we follow McDonald's (1958) original design and assume delegates voted in a manner consistent with their statements in speeches and written correspondences. In this way, we can equate their stated positions with their actual voting behavior.…”

Section: Recovering Delegate Votes and Preferences On Slave Clausesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Voting on slavery at the Constitutional Convention

Dougherty

Heckelman

2008

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This paper provides the first empirical study of delegate voting behavior on issues of slavery at the U.S. Constitutional Convention. We analyze two categories of votes: those related to apportionment and those related to the regulation of the slave trade. Although it is widely believed that delegates voted consistent with the interests of their states on issues of slavery, we find that for votes on apportionment, the effect of state interests was enhanced by both the delegate's personal interest and his religious background. For votes regulating the slave trade, state interests had a significant effect but only within specific regions.

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Section: Motivation Of the Framersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Motivation Of the Framersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Motivation Of the Framersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Motivation Of the Framersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Recovering Delegate Votes and Preferences On Slave Clausesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Voting on slavery at the Constitutional Convention

Dougherty

Heckelman

2008

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Recovering, Restoring, and Renewing the Foundations of American Public Administration: The Contributions of Herbert J. Storing

Morgan

Kirwan

Rohr

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Public Administration Review

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Public administration continues to face an identity crisis that turns on the question of whether the animating principles of the discipline are to be discovered in the political foundations of a given regime, or whether they are to be found in more universal and transcendent principles of scientific management. Herbert J. Storing reframed the identity crisis as a problem arising from America’s constitutional system of governance. In doing so, he created an important role for public administration in democratic governance. This role took the form of “closet statesmanship” and, in practice, requires the exercise of prudential judgment that looks more like judicial decision making than scientific management. In summarizing Storing’s writings, the authors convincingly argue that he has much to teach us about the ongoing debate regarding the role of the bureaucracy within America’s 87,576 systems of government.

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Economic theory of constitution. English-American school

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2017

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We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution

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Voting on slavery at the Constitutional Convention

Voting on slavery at the Constitutional Convention

Recovering, Restoring, and Renewing the Foundations of American Public Administration: The Contributions of Herbert J. Storing

Economic theory of constitution. English-American school

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