POLI 2051 Lecture : Lecture 2
Document Summary
Nation is a group of people of solver government. The ideas of john locke were very powerful, looked like common sense. In 1776 the colonies reacted against a government that was too strong. The goal became to find a government that is just right! Not replacing a government, but filling a vacuum. The founders did not make themselves the government. Place their faith in the law and wrote the constitution (social contract) Montesquieu- wrote spirit of the laws and declared the 3 powers (executive, judicial, and legislative) Never had an aristocracy: the articles, the bicameral legislature, the limited executive-implements and administers the laws (a president, the supreme court and inferior courts (judicial)- interpret law. deem something constitutional. The authority the resolve conflicts of the law: the states, amending the constitution. Application of 2/3 of legislative ratified: of the states legislatures votes convention method, conventions and of the states.
