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Ryan L. Teed
POLS 376
Dr. William Niemi
Frontiersmen Closing Statements
Greetings to my fellow delegates and esteemed members of the Jamopolis community! The time has come for us to decide what course we should set for ourselves as well as the future generations of our great nation. Here we must realize our duty “to guard against even the bare possibility of future tyranny.” I will begin by saying that I, like many of my fellow frontiersmen, traveled to this convention without any particular predispositions regarding the proposed constitution. However, having listened carefully to each and every delegate present here, we frontiersmen have come to the conclusion that this constitution absolutely CANNOT be adopted by the state of Jamopolis as is.
It has been made quite obvious throughout our debates that there are many serious problems with this document which should be addressed, and even many of its Federalist supporters can be quoted throughout this convention as saying, “Nothing is guaranteed.” As frontiersmen, we are exposed to the brutal and greedy nature of man constantly, and realize the popular sentiment that “every man has a natural propensity to power.” We do not feel comfortable with putting faith in people’s desire to do good, and wish to see clauses within the constitution which prevent the people form future tyranny; specific clauses, not implied ones.
We found the arguments of the Anti-Federalist constituents regarding Article Two of the proposed constitution to be quite persuading. Why would we fight a war against a tyrant overseas only to turn around and establish for ourselves “an elective king, a prince under a republican cloak, vested with power dangerous to a free people.” If we do such a thing, I can assure you that we will one day become the laughingstock of the world. And yes, delegates, the powers of the executive do resemble those of a monarch, whatever slight semantic deviations...
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