POLS 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Roger B. Taney, Pass Laws, Cooperative Federalism
11 Jan 2017
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Federalist/antifederalists: federalists - for ratification of constitution (strong, centralized gov"t) Wrote essays in newspaper w/support of const. Federalist papers - 85 essays by madison, ____, ____ for public consumption. Fed 10 by madison - concern about factions (group of any # people w/common political agenda who want to stomp on rights of other groups) getting political power to undermine others. Cant remove liberty or have everyone agree, so must control affects of faction. Remove causes of factions: liberty leads to factions. Can"t have factions if everyone agrees on everything. Direct democracy isnt gonna work; so we need a large (more people = more interests represented) republic to control factions. Fed 51 by madison - how institutio(cid:374)s (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e set up so the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e t(cid:455)ra(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:272)al, so (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed a (cid:271)ill of rights: antifederalists. Wrote essays in newspapers w/concerns of gov"t power. Thought that power was too consolidated in const.
