POLS 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bicameralism, Extortion, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
31 Jan 2017
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Town hall assignment info: opens wednesday february 1st at 9am, closes monday feb 13 at 12pm. Sources of u. s ideals: thomas hobbes- levithan(1651, surrender freedom instate of nature to government of protection. John locke- second treatsie on civil governemnt (1690: natural inalienable rights reatined under government. Social contract (1762: people are soverign, government by consent of the governed. Declaration of independence: call to revolution based on especially on lockes ideas. Articles of confederation: 9 of 13 required to pass legislation, amendment by unanimous approval of 13 states, with no power to tax, could not maintain military, weak central authority- no president, no judicracy. Collapse of articles of confederation: shays rebellion(1786, fear of anarchy widespread, 5 states called for constitutional convention to revise articles. Constitutional convention 1787: the great compromise, va(large state) plan size determines congress size, nj(small state) plan all equal, bicameral legislature with different modes of representation, house of reps based on state size.
