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" It is course legitimate editorial decision-making to spend less time on one aspect than another writer might invest on that issue; but this points out the way in which Berkin makes her history more like journalism, bringing in as many quotes from a diverse set of speakers whenever she can. It was interesting to know that Jefferson was dead set against the proceedings going private.

Middlekauff (630) writes that by putting their Virginia Plan out first, the Virginians "had framed the terms of the discussion." And for the next two weeks the delegates supporting the Virginia Plan "had forced the pace of deliberations, and, for the most part, controlled the Convention." The momentum was on the side of the Virginians and their supporters; the Virginia Plan called for an executive branch, a judiciary, and a "supreme" legislature - and that the representation in the legislature should be allocated according to population. Basically, all the proposals by the Virginians were at the top of the list of topics discussed during the next two weeks. And essentially, by June 13, the results were "substantially the Virginia Plan without the Council of Revision," Middlekauff continues, and sounding more like Berkin when he adds that James Madison's "near-mad scheme to give the Congress a veto over state legislation remained in the Plan" (631).

MIDDLEKAUFF on MADISON: Both Middlekauff and Berkin go to great lengths to define, describe and praise the work of James Madison in the convention.

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Madison was the most eloquent and forceful of the speakers, and when he presented an idea he did it as an articulate, educated man who had done his homework. Actually, Madison was the author of the Virginia plan, and Middlekauff (638) writes that Madison's knowledge of history was "impressive," his logic was "impeccable" and his language in putting forth the Virginia Plan was "so stark, his conception of federal-state relations so clear-cut" that the thrust of the Virginia Plan "could not escape anyone" (638).

BERKIN on MADISON: Madison was "deeply suspicious of human nature," Berkin writes on page 73; this is something readers didn't get from Middlekauff (he man not have felt it was important). She mentions on page 72 that Madison's "forte was creating structures, and the Virginia resolutions provided a governmental skeleton, a structural blueprint for the new Constitution." Berkin refers to Madison's strategy in promoting the three branches of government as "genius" (73); Madison showed a "surgeon's skill" in cutting Congress in half and calling for representative legislators (73).

CONCLUSION: Berkin's next-to-last sentence in Chapter Eight describes - with her typical flair - the state that brought up the rear when it came to ratifying the Constitution (190): In March 1790 Rhode Island "...set aside its roguishness and grudgingly" ratified. Typically less colorful in his narrative, Middlekauff's last two sentences went like this: "...Rhode Island held back until May of the following year. By the time.....

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