The Idea of a President: A Dramatization based on the debates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 - Softcover

Madison, James

9780942208610: The Idea of a President: A Dramatization based on the debates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787

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ISBN 10: 0942208617 ISBN 13: 9780942208610

Publisher: Bandanna Books, 2012

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This book answers the question: What was intended for the Executive branch of government in the U.S.A.? The text is based on James Madison's extensive notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which created the Constitution for the United States of America. This volume concentrates on those sections relating to the creation of the Executive are included (nearly half of the whole Convention), though the delegates tussled over the relationships of Executive to Legislative and Judiciary, a discussion that is vital to understanding what a President is supposed to be. The speeches in Madison's text are modified to the present tense in most instances, for dramatization. Background materials include the historical setting, the unsettling circumstances of an inadequate governance, and brief biographical information on the speakers.

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James Madison was an early American patriot, helping to organize the Annapolis conference, and later the Philadelphia meeting, which became known as the Constitutional Convention. At the time he was 36 years old. He actively campaigned for ratification of the Constitution, which was modeled largely on his own "Virginia Plan." He was one of the three authors of the Federalist Papers (with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay). An advisor to President Washington, he supported the Bill of Rights addition to the Constitution, but eventually broke off to join Thomas Jefferson in forming the Democratic-Republican Party. He served as Secretary of State to Jefferson, and succeeded him as the Fourth President of the United States, during the War of 1812 with Great Britain.

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