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When You're 'Not' You're Hot: Why The Writers Of Our Corrective Constitution (1789-1804) Loved The Adverbial ‘Not’, Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

The texture of Corrective Constitution varies dramatically from the Philaelphia Constitution. Take ‘not,’ which makes thirty-four appearances in the Early Constitution with seven uses of the abverbial ‘not’ employed in the twelve amendments drafted, adopted and ratified 1789-1804, which OCL names this Our Corrective Consitution. Bentham and Madison are surveyed to mine an explanation for variance in texture of the two constitutions.