Book Club - Federalist Papers
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- Federalists paper were written by Founding Fathers to defend the constitution, not the Bill of Rights
- Aside, Bill of Rights is a set of amendments to the constitution which the Founding Fathers were not in favor of
- Articles of Confederations is the first constitution, but it is very weak
- Federal government didn't have much power from this
- Most power reside in States
- Resulted in Shades Rebellion
- Founders found this to be unworkable, and need to rewrite it
- This system of checks and balances was designed to gridlock the government so it doesn't violate individual rights easily
- Founding Fathers were afraid of simple majority - having just 51% would outvote the other 49%
- Solve federalism by balancing Federal Government vs State Government
- Executive Branch vs Legislative Branch vs Judiciary
- [[quotes]] "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" - James Madison (51)
- Federal government was not seen as the chief allegiance for the people to garner to
- Today, that couldn’t be more prevalent
- Today, the executive branch is shifting to a legislative role while the legislative branch is moving to a vestigial organ
- Anti-federalist papers came first, and then the federalist paper came after
- For the first 150 years of US, the federalist paper are right
- Now with the progressive movement, the anti-federalist paper are becoming true
- ==Federalist paper hold up as a critique of the government system, but does not hold up in its prediction that it will hold up==
- US government is not a simple-majority democracy, it was designed to be a republic where federal government shouldn't have this much power