Baack, Ben; McGuire, Robert A.; Cott, T. Norman Van - In: The Journal of Legal Studies 38 (2009) 2, pp. 533-567
We provide a new interpretation of one of the "great" but in our view "failed" North-South agreements during the U.S. Constitution's drafting. In 1787, lower South delegates to the Constitutional Convention reputedly settled for a simple-majority congressional vote for commercial regulations in...