The American Founding: Motivations of the Framers at the Constitutional Convention

美国的建国：制宪会议制宪者的动机

• 批准号: 0418254
• 负责人: Keith Dougherty
• 金额: $ 7.15万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2005-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0418254&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: American; Founding; Motivations; Framers; Constitutional

For the last century, scholars have debated the motivation of the framers at the constitutional convention. Some have argued that the delegates voted according to their personal economic interests, while others have argued that the delegates voted according to national interests or political ideologies. The project extends current understandings of the constitutional convention in three important ways. First, it increases the number of usable observations by inferring delegate voting patterns from the records of state roll call votes and manuscripts that were previously unavailable. Second, it allows for more precise testing of various hypotheses concerning delegate motivation, including Beard's thesis, theories about ideology, and theories of rational self-interest. Third, it analyzes the type of constituent interests that may have affected delegates' voting behavior: the interests of state legislators (who elected delegates to the convention), the interests of citizens within a state (who the delegates allegedly represented), and the interests of people living in the delegate's county (who might elect delegates to future posts). The results have important implications for political science, economics, and the study of the law.

在上个世纪，学者们一直在争论制宪会议的动机。有些人认为代表们根据他们的个人经济利益投票，而另一些人则认为代表们根据国家利益或政治意识形态投票。 该项目从三个重要方面扩展了目前对制宪会议的理解。首先，它通过从以前不可用的州唱名投票和手稿的记录中推断代表投票模式来增加可用观察的数量。第二，它允许更精确地测试各种假设代表动机，包括比尔德的论文，理论的意识形态，理论的理性的自我利益。第三，它分析了可能影响代表投票行为的选民利益的类型：州立法者的利益（谁选举代表参加大会），州内公民的利益（代表声称代表谁），以及代表所在县人民的利益（谁可能选举代表未来的职位）。研究结果对政治学、经济学和法学研究具有重要意义。