A Dialectic in the Foundation of the United States Federal Constitution. Part 6.: Cases of Dialectic Series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Dialectic

 

in the

 

Foundation

 

of the

 

United States

 

Federal Constitution.

 

Part 6.:

 

Cases of Dialectic Series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

In the extended dialogues that led to the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of the United States of America, there was intense internal disputation regarding the design of the federal legislative body, with the example of the British imperialist Parliament in mind, and with the goal of negating that model in a new model, of a ‘king-less neo-parliament’.

 

One faction of this fierce opposition wanted a “uni-cameral”, or “one-house”, federal legislature, in which each of the federating, former-colonial states would have Equal representation in terms of number of representatives for each colony in that legislative body, making the federation of states a federation of equals.

 

An opposing faction fought for a federal legislature in which each federating, former colony would be represented, in terms of the number of its representatives, in proportion to its population.  Thereby, each United States citizen would enjoy approximately the same per capita representational “weight” in the federal legislature.

 

It was a kind of dialectical categorial synthesis – no doubt largely unrecognized as such – that saved the constitutional design dialogue from deadlock. 

 

That synthesis designed the federal legislature to constitute, de facto, a dialectical complex unity of the two legislature design principles described above. 

 

The legislature of the federal government of the United States, as a single legislative unit, was to be a “bi-cameral”, or “two-house” legislative unit, combining and integrating a “House of Representatives”, with the number of its representatives for each constituent state reflecting the citizen-population of that state, in ‘intra-duality’ with a “Senate”, with an equal “weight” of exactly two citizen- representatives for each constituent state of the United States, regardless of the population of that state relative to the populations of the other constituent states in that federation of states, together forming the single citizens-representative legislature of that united federation of states.

 

That was the theory for a citizens-representative federal legislature that resulted from the constitutional deliberations. 

 

Factors such as a growing plutocracy, with capital-money resources enabling it to lobby that legislature, and to “buy” legislation, & the complications of “latifundial” agricultural chattel slavery in the southern colonies, plus other practical realities, have put that theory to the test ever since.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Regards,

 

 

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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