Overview
This is two papers that needs to be completed, both has to be written in the perspective of John Langdon.
WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
PAPER 1
In your one, certain paper, on the size of the lower house (Issue 2), explain and defend the compromise proposal of the Moderate Nationalists, drawing on Court-republican and Country-republican theory.
PAPER 2
In your second paper you should, in consultation with your faction leader, explain and defend the Moderate Nationalist position on Terms of Office and Modes of Election for the Executive (Issue 5 & 7).
The information for those is attached in the documents below,
Formatting Requirements:
Times New Roman 12pt. Font Double Spaced No footnotes/endnotes. You may use a bibliography if you wish but this will not count to your 3-4 pages.
For the document named John Langdon it is the background information, please ignore the page that says ballot.
For the document named Modern Nationalists, it is information for the issues and sources. please do look both documents to understand more about it, please use the recommended sources and also no plagiarism.
here are the sources for paper 1
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch13s7.html Edmund Burke, “Speech to the Electors of Bristol” ( https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/
bookshelf website, The Constitutional Convention of 1787 and The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, these are two books on the bookshelf.
to access vital source email address: [email protected], password:Vague1234,,
https://archive.csac.history.wisc.edu/alexander_hamilton_speech6.21.pdf Alexander Hamilton Speech: New York Ratifying Convention, 21 June 1788
here are the sources for paper 2
https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/locke1689a.pdf John Locke-Second Treatise of Government
http://montesquieu.ens-lyon.fr/spip.php?article2730 XI.6 On the English Constitution
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-18-02-0290 John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/farrand-the-records-of-the-federal-convention-of-1787-vol-3 Convention speeches by McClurg (July 17, p. 495), Madison (July 17, pp. 495, 496), Morris (July19, pp.496-97), King (July 19, p. 497), Madison (July 19, pp. 497-98), Wilson (July 24, p. 498), Morris (July 24, p. 498) (all in FC, vol. 3; under A 2, S 1, C 1, #4)
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/edmond-randolph-speech-2/ Speech at Virginia Ratifying Convention
https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=716 Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Knopf, 1996)
https://archive.csac.history.wisc.edu/Oliver_Ellsworth_and_William_Samuel_Johnson_Speeches_in_the_Connecticut_Convention.pdf Convention speeches by Ellsworth (July 19, p. 538), Williamson (July 25, p. 542), Dickinson (July 25, p. 542), Report of the Committee of Eleven (September 4, pp. 544-45), Committee of Style (September 7, p. 550) (all in FC, vol. 3; under A 2, S 1, C 2 and 3, #2)
please use the sources only to do the paper, remember to doit in the perspective of John Langdon.