Veritas et Sapientia – The Comic Circle Of Today’s DeceptiCONS & The House of Bush

Mandeville, LA – “Northrop Frye, in speaking of the pattern of comedy, describes it as a “parabola”: “a U-shaped plot, with the action sinking into deep and potentially tragic complications and then suddenly turning upward into a happy ending.” The bottom of this figure Frye calls “saturnalia,” after the ritualized and socially purgative disorder of the Roman holiday— a moment when reality is inverted against its proper nature and turned upside down.’ From his original mastery of the process of lawgiving, his situation as the guiding spirit, the intellectual ringmaster of the convention, Madison, in the course of his stubbornness in behalf of his plan, moves steadily downward toward a nadir, his peripeteia, in the moment when John Dickinson of Delaware upbraids him in exasperation, “You see the consequence of pushing things too far?”  The final turn comes on July 16 when the entire Constitutional Convention rejects his (Madison’s) view on representation for the states. They adopt the report of the Compromise Committee elected on July 2 the suggestion of Benjamin Franklin. Eventually, the capacity for recognition of the situation comes and the resolution begins, moving away from the obsession, folly, forgetfulness, and pride that made it so difficult to achieve. But it does not come until there is a little more stubbornness, including appeals to savants who were more important to Madison as would-be lawgiver than that overwhelming majority of the people in a large majority of the states which he would need to get approval for any constitution drafted in Philadelphia. Because he was so attached to his view of the common good with respect to a fundamental law, so eager to “pursue a plan which would be espoused and supported by the enlightened and impartial part of America” (that is, savants and philosophers, who can grant him fame), Madison had refused to recognize that there was any danger in insisting upon that view, regardless of what his colleagues might say.'” “He was not apprehensive that the people of the small States would obstinately refuse to accede to a government founded on just principles” — principles he believed in.” And in this conviction he was utterly and inexcusably mistaken. Said another way, he was either self-deceived or else cared less for union than for the abstract purity of his plan, which is the attitude of the doctrinaire and the ideologue, not the statesman.” – M.E. Bradford, Original Intentions on the Ratification of the U.S. Constitution

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