Lying between the two sides of the argument over the original intent of the founding father are some past century historians who propose that the founding fathers each brought their own sets of principles and ideas to the table, eventually leading up to the collective result of all those individuals’ views mixing together: The Constitution. Jack Rakove, Pulitzer Prize winner for his book Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, is a modern day historian who believes that the founding fathers were more a large group of people debating about the best way to set up a new government for their desperate country. This opinion is different from both James Kent and Charles Beard’s opinions in that Rakove does not say