Here’s what I think is –has been for decades– happening in American politics: People generally adhere to one (1) element of the American political culture. WHO and WHERE you are in “political space” INFORMS your politics and policy. Trump is an Authoritarian, ergo…. big problems with people who are Liberals and especially those, such as…
From my dissertation: I provide the context and treatment of a sample of one hundred and sixteen Resolutions of Instruction (ROI) that were recorded in the Senate Journal from 1789 through 1819. I find that the use of ROI to express a local sentiment as well as to pass a constitutional amendment strongly implies that…
From my dissertation: In this dissertation, I provide examples of historical boundaries of republican practices and beliefs in practice from 1775 through 1819 in American politics at the national level. This dissertation should help to establish verifiable boundaries of republicanism that will enable researchers to search for and observe the element of republicanism during the…
From my dissertation… The Early American “Republic” from 1775 through 1819 (working title) The Constitution of 1787 gave state governments the ability to perform a political role to protect popular sovereignty that most Americans from the Founders’ generation believed to be necessary for the proper functioning of the new Republic. State legislatures remained important to the…
From my dissertation: Following Riker (1955), Resolutions of Instruction (ROI) were ineffective compared to the recall provision of the Articles of Confederation, and the circumstances surrounding ROI did not affect the partisan legislature after Ratification. At this, Grynaviski finds that a state’s decision to pass a ROI with respect for President Jackson’s Bank War, “was closely related to whether it issued bonds to…
From my dissertation: Ray Gunn (1980) wrote ”The New York State Legislature: A Developmental Perspective: 1777-1846,” published in Social Science History, because he was stumped that “Given the centrality of legislatures in our representative system government, it is a remarkable fact that there is today no general, systematic history of state legislative development in America” (p. 267). By the time of the Constitution, republicanism had matriculated…
From my dissertation: To help verify the hypothesis that ROI did matter to the senators as something to increasingly introduce during the later decades, I track the amount of ROI introduced by the senators and by the president. My hypothesis is that the senators increasingly introduced ROI over time, at least on average, because senators…
From my dissertation: A vexing aspect of the controversy over the Alien and Sedition laws is noticeable in the prominent role that James Madison played in drafting the Virginia Resolves. Little more than a decade before, he had supported giving the national government the power to veto state laws and to ignore ROI when the Tucker Amendment sought to include the right of Instruction in the Constitution, yet Madison now appears to…
From my dissertation: Where do we begin to study republicanism during the early 21st century? Given the nature of republicanism seemingly everywhere before the Civil War, I took a chance to research whether Resolutions of Instruction were passed against the Patriot Act of 2001 because it appeared to mimic the Alien and Sedition laws. The…
from my dissertation William Riker, a political scientist, in the much-admired Journal of the American Political Science Review, supports Eaton (1952) insofar as Instruction was moot after 1860 (1955). At the time of the Founding, the Constitution established two types of federalism. In the former, national supremacy is a closed question, and this is called “centrally-directed or centralized” (p. 453). The latter path of constitutional effectuality showcases that ”decisions are made, partially at least, through the machinery…
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