POSC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Robert A. Dahl, Connecticut Compromise, Equal Opportunity
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Equal opportunity- one person one vote since the 1960s. As capitalism plays out, less winners and more losers appear. Popular: wanted reforms, banking and railroads were big. Many social movements such as bonus army- world war i veterans march on washington to receive their pensions to be given ahead of time. Helped to show how dire the situation of great depression was. If it seems like it looks rigged for popular sovereignty, it is. It"s not there to respond to demand of public, it is to stay protected. Great compromise- us senate (2 members of each state) and hor (congress votes based on population). 3/5 compromise- slaves are counted as 3/5 of a person. Electoral college- vote for the president indirectly. Supreme court- judicial (interpret laws), executive (executes laws), legislature (makes. Separation of powers- no one power has too much power. James madison- wrote the federalist paper 10 (elitist document)
