Interview with Michael C. Toth author of Why should people be
interested in Oliver Ellsworth? The U.S. Senate, for one.
Ellsworth was the primary spokesman for the winning side at the
Constitutional Convention. It’s odd but Americans know a lot
more about Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. Both men
deserve a lot of credit. They were responsible for the
Constitutional Convention meeting at all. But this is not to say
that Hamilton and Madison were necessarily the fathers of the
Constitution that came from the Convention. Ellsworth took the
floor on several occasions to support the equal state vote in
the Senate. When Madison, who opposed the measure, wrote about
the equal state vote in the Senate in the Federalist papers he,
in fact, used a phrase from Ellsworth to defend the measure.
According to Ellsworth and the Federalist, the construction of
the Senate was one of the reasons why the U.S. was designed to
be “party federal, partly national.” What else did Ellsworth
accomplish? He wrote articles in favor