framers

(noun)

The authors of the American Constitution.

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Examples of framers in the following topics:

  • The Framers of the Constitution

    • The Framers of the Constitution were delegates to the Constitutional Convention who took part in drafting the proposed U.S.
    • The Framers of the Constitution were delegates to the Constitutional Convention and helped draft the Constitution of the United States .
    • Some historians consider the "Founding Fathers" to be a larger group, which includes not only the Signers and the Framers but also ordinary citizens who took part in winning American independence and creating the United States of America.
    • The framers of the Constitution had extensive political experience.

  • Amending the Constitution

    • To protect the Constitution from hasty alteration, the framers of the Constitution wrote Article V.
    • However, the Framers of the Constitution worried that too many changes would harm the democratic process.
    • To protect the Constitution from hasty alteration, the framers wrote Article V .
    • The Framers supported a process that would allow the newly created constitution to change, but also made sure it could not be changed too quickly.

  • The Limits of Democracy

    • As the new political value system of republicanism was forming, many framers of the United States Constitution worried about democracy's limitations.
    • The framers of the Constitution were influenced by a vast array of political and philosophical models, and combined them to create the political value system known as republicanism.
    • Without the Convention's proposed central government, the framers feared that the United States under the Articles of Confederation would fail to keep the country intact.

  • Democracy v. Republicanism

    • Direct democracy was very much opposed by the framers of the United States Consitution and some signatories of the Declaration of Independence.
    • Direct democracy was very much opposed by the framers of the United States Consitution and some signatories of the Declaration of Independence.
    • Evaluate how republicanism shaped the political thought of the Constitutional framers

  • The Division and Separation of Power

    • His writings considerably influenced the opinions of the framers of the United States Constitution.
    • It was the framers' decision that the legislative power of the federal government be exercised in accord with a single, finely wrought, and exhaustively considered procedure.
    • This concept is not written into the Constitution, but was envisioned by many of the Constitution's framers.

  • The Representation Function

    • However, others argue that the framers intended for the Connecticut Compromise to construct the Senate so that each state had equal footing that was not based on population.

  • Deism

    • American Founding Fathers, or Framers of the Constitution, who were influenced by such philosophy include Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Cornelius Harnett, Gouverneur Morris, and Hugh Williamson; their political speeches show distinct Deistic influence.

  • The Tariff and the Politics of Protection

    • McKinley, the act's framer and defender, was then assassinated.

  • Advice and Consent

    • Several framers of the U.S.

  • Religion in the U.S.

    • The framers of the Constitution modeled the provisions concerning religion within the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and rejected any religious test for office.