Meh, Madison gets far too much credit for influencing the Constitution. Why doesn't anyone ever talk about George Mason, Roger Sherman, Gouverneur Morris, Oliver Ellsworth? Madison pretty much only got his fame because he kept notes and they were published. Definitely a brilliant, important Founder, but the Constitution was a group project.
Problem is that this issue is still an unresolved Constitutional question. Adams and Jefferson both took it upon themselves to interpret the text as giving the President of the Senate (sitting VP) the sole discretion of determining the legitimacy of the forms submitted to Congress, and "counting" them. Nobody really questioned them at the time... although that failure allowed Jefferson in part, to essentially steal the election of 1800.
Will this issue ever be resolved? An amendment to the Constitution to clarify the text would be prudent. But that would require the body of legislators to give a shit about doing something intelligent 🙄
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
Shakespeare / Hamlet / Act III Scene I (1599-1601 AD)
Will this issue ever be resolved?
An amendment to the Constitution
To clarify the text,
Would be prudent.
But that would require the body,
The Legislature,
To give a shit about doing something:
Ay, there's the rub;
Meh, Madison gets far too much credit for influencing the Constitution. Why doesn't anyone ever talk about George Mason, Roger Sherman, Gouverneur Morris, Oliver Ellsworth? Madison pretty much only got his fame because he kept notes and they were published. Definitely a brilliant, important Founder, but the Constitution was a group project.
Problem is that this issue is still an unresolved Constitutional question. Adams and Jefferson both took it upon themselves to interpret the text as giving the President of the Senate (sitting VP) the sole discretion of determining the legitimacy of the forms submitted to Congress, and "counting" them. Nobody really questioned them at the time... although that failure allowed Jefferson in part, to essentially steal the election of 1800.
Will this issue ever be resolved? An amendment to the Constitution to clarify the text would be prudent. But that would require the body of legislators to give a shit about doing something intelligent 🙄
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
Shakespeare / Hamlet / Act III Scene I (1599-1601 AD)
Will this issue ever be resolved?
An amendment to the Constitution
To clarify the text,
Would be prudent.
But that would require the body,
The Legislature,
To give a shit about doing something:
Ay, there's the rub;
MAGAdeburger / Madison / Act III Scene I (2021)
cc: u/v8power
I've never fancied myself a poet. Perhaps we can continue to collaborate. I like your style fren 🤝