A New Investigation into Madison’s Notes of the Convention
Solving the Mystery of His June 6 Speech
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13044404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynn Uzzell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 517-549 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2161-1580 • E-ISSN: 2161-1599 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/694120 |
| OpenAlex | W2765800820 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
James Madison’s Notes of the Constitutional Convention have long been the gold standard for understanding how the Constitution was formed. Nevertheless, there are a series of troubling discrepancies within the extant records that give contradictory accounts of Madison’s June 6 speech, which is Madison’s first semipublic expression of the argument later immortalized in Federalist no. 10. According to a provocative new theory advanced by the 2015 book Madison’s Hand, these various discrepancies point to a larger scandal of Madison’s routine negligence, frauds, forgeries, and cover-ups when he was writing his Notes. This article will demonstrate that this new hypothesis fails on several levels to provide a plausible solution. Furthermore, a fresh look at the clues, including ones that have never been noticed before, will finally point us in the direction of a satisfactory solution to this long-standing mystery. More importantly, this new solution reestablishes the reliability of Madison’s Notes
Argument (complex analysis · Constitution · Convention · Extant taxon · Federalist · Law and economics · Point (geometry · Political science · Scrutiny · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Mathematics · Medicine · Political Theory and Influence
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |