POLI2327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Enumerated Powers, Corrupt Bargain, Supremacy Clause
1 Apr 2014
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Becomes an issue for lincoln (and bush: not listed as power of president just assumed. If you have a president/executive, a prerogative power must be assumed: constitution doesn"t include provisions for emergency powers. Luther v. borden taney court: state of rhode island was mal-apportioned. Throughout us history, there is an alternative view where things could be decided politically as well: guarantee clause of the constitution says that every state should have a republican form of government. Believed in popular government: federalists, at least, were worried about too much democracy threatened by mass democracy. First ran in 1824, won the popular vote: but john quincy adams and henry clay decided to throw his people to john quincy adams so he could win and make clay his. Vp corrupt bargain: epitomizes the way jackson felt about the government and country wouldn"t let the normal people into the white. Jacksonian politics = beginning of democratic politics: anti-elitist, pro-constitution.
