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Thursday, September 17, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Professor speaks about Constitution
By KIRK ADAMS
Staff writer
The signing of the U.S. Constitution 200 years ago today was not boring, but people don't get excited about it because it's not fun like the Super Bowl, a professor of journalism said last night.
Calder Pickett, the Clyde M. Reed distinguished professor of journalism, told about 250 people at Woodruff Auditorium, "I hope I won't put up with that." He excited as a rock concert or "LA Law' or watching Danny Mann."
But it might be as exciting as watching the KU football team, he said.
Pickett showed slides of people and places and played music from the revolutionary and constitutional periods throughout his speech.
The summer of the Constitutional Convention, 1787, was one of the hottest in memory at the time, he said.
A French visitor wrote, "At each inhaling of air, one worries about the next one. The slightest movement is painful." "Pickett said.
Before the founding fathers ratified the Constitution, the colonies were operating individually without federal government, Pickett said.
At first, the delegates did not know they were writing the Constitution — they were there to revise the Articles of Confederation, and the concept of the Constitution came later. The meetings were secret, and delegates could not copy the daily journal without permission.
And initially, the concept of a formal government was not supported by many people.
"The idea of a single executive (branch) frightened some people, who remembered a single executive called George the Third."
Other issues heavily debated were how members of Congress should be selected, the proposed judiciary branch of government and how much power Congress should have over the states.
Pickett said, "James Wilson came up with the idea of presidential electors, a matter we're still struggling with."
Eventually, the delegates agreed upon the Constitution, and the states ratified it after heavy debate. Some states held out for two or three years.
To conclude his speech, Pickett said, "We as a people would have been long dead had we not had the Constitution those founding fathers wrangled about in the Philadelphia heat of the summer of 1787."
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