CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Maftean, Miles Roger |
|---|---|
| Title | Passion and Reason in the Constitution Making Process: the Issue of Slavery and the American Constitution |
| Summary | The constitution making process is one in which a designated group of individuals make a new or improved constitution for a nation. Often times, passions and preferences play a major role in the political bargaining between what the authors will include in a constitution. But the fact still remains that constitutions are essentially neutral, where the state does not have a particular stance on major social issues. In this research, the notion of passion and preference is argued by showcasing the extensive amount of constraints on the constitution making process. By illustrating this puzzle through the American 1787 constitution making process, where the colonists were at ends with one major issue: slavery, the research is able to show how passions can be put aside in order for actors to research a compromise that results in a neutral constitution. |
| Supervisor | Dimitrijevic, Nenad |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/maftean_miles.pdf |
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