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Review by Nduthu43 -- The Framework by Lynn Keller
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Framework" by Lynn Keller.]
The Framework: The Configuration of Our Constitution by Lynn Keller
Book Review by Kanyua Nduthu
Governments thrive in what is set by predecessors. The incumbents may claim a say in the foundations of how a government can be run, but essentially historical happenings and strategies take a big part of running an institution no matter how much the new leaders may try to shape it. This is so because any institution has a culture and traditions. The United States has political and social economic histories that have governed the country for decades.
The author of The Framework, Lynn Keller, is the Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she has taught in the English department for over thirty years. She is also the current director of the Center for Culture, History and Environment in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
The Framework is a cognition of American footprints in policy and the governing blueprint development that has been used to guide the incoming leaders for decades up from George Washington to Donald Trump. President Washington was the first US president under the US Constitution.
In this book, the author has woven the ingredients of the US Constitution through a process: political, religious and cultural augmentations that saw the birth of the American Law in Print and practice. Lynn has not only unearthed Constitutional intrigues in this master piece but also espoused the intricate web of the US Constitution and what drove the founder developers to lay such an honored document in the history of man.
Of particular interest are the Framers and what special interests they held besides establishing the legal document to govern the American people back in 1700s. These Framers, as they referred themselves, included John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Rutledge, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson among the constitutional delegation. Franklin, Rutledge and Washington were the Grand Masons with Franklin being their leader. Their subscription to Freemasonry cannot be overlooked, as most of their ideas informed greatly the laying down of the draft constitution, secrecy of the structure being in the foreground.
Lynn expedites that the structure of the constitution was kept secret to allow public participation on content an d process which are very key to any government that deems itself liberal and just. She recognizes the document as intelligent and highly organized. It is this structure that Keller’s book is trying to show and espouse; a frame without which the US Constitution would have no ground to lie on.
Despite the Framers being members of freemasonry which is shrouded in intrigue, secrecy and suspicion in today’s world, they are equally revered by American citizenry for founding such an important document as the American Constitution.
She lays the framework of the constitution as constituting of the Legislative, The Executive and The Judiciary forming the constitutional framework and Bill of Rights defining the voters and voter’s rights framework. On the process of drafting the document, Keller questions some evident deletions and insertions on the raw draft.
Owing to the vast and enlightening details in this book, it is not enough to rely on just this review as it is limited to just a review which does not supply every detail. I would recommend this book to law makers, scholars and even people with special interest in understanding the US constitution and its framework.
I rate this book 3 out of 4, and consider it as one of the best reads in historical perspectives.
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The Framework
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The Framework: The Configuration of Our Constitution by Lynn Keller
Book Review by Kanyua Nduthu
Governments thrive in what is set by predecessors. The incumbents may claim a say in the foundations of how a government can be run, but essentially historical happenings and strategies take a big part of running an institution no matter how much the new leaders may try to shape it. This is so because any institution has a culture and traditions. The United States has political and social economic histories that have governed the country for decades.
The author of The Framework, Lynn Keller, is the Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she has taught in the English department for over thirty years. She is also the current director of the Center for Culture, History and Environment in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
The Framework is a cognition of American footprints in policy and the governing blueprint development that has been used to guide the incoming leaders for decades up from George Washington to Donald Trump. President Washington was the first US president under the US Constitution.
In this book, the author has woven the ingredients of the US Constitution through a process: political, religious and cultural augmentations that saw the birth of the American Law in Print and practice. Lynn has not only unearthed Constitutional intrigues in this master piece but also espoused the intricate web of the US Constitution and what drove the founder developers to lay such an honored document in the history of man.
Of particular interest are the Framers and what special interests they held besides establishing the legal document to govern the American people back in 1700s. These Framers, as they referred themselves, included John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Rutledge, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson among the constitutional delegation. Franklin, Rutledge and Washington were the Grand Masons with Franklin being their leader. Their subscription to Freemasonry cannot be overlooked, as most of their ideas informed greatly the laying down of the draft constitution, secrecy of the structure being in the foreground.
Lynn expedites that the structure of the constitution was kept secret to allow public participation on content an d process which are very key to any government that deems itself liberal and just. She recognizes the document as intelligent and highly organized. It is this structure that Keller’s book is trying to show and espouse; a frame without which the US Constitution would have no ground to lie on.
Despite the Framers being members of freemasonry which is shrouded in intrigue, secrecy and suspicion in today’s world, they are equally revered by American citizenry for founding such an important document as the American Constitution.
She lays the framework of the constitution as constituting of the Legislative, The Executive and The Judiciary forming the constitutional framework and Bill of Rights defining the voters and voter’s rights framework. On the process of drafting the document, Keller questions some evident deletions and insertions on the raw draft.
Owing to the vast and enlightening details in this book, it is not enough to rely on just this review as it is limited to just a review which does not supply every detail. I would recommend this book to law makers, scholars and even people with special interest in understanding the US constitution and its framework.
I rate this book 3 out of 4, and consider it as one of the best reads in historical perspectives.
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The Framework
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