POLS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anti-Federalism, Scantron Corporation, Layer Cake
20 Sep 2016
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Constitution of 1876 detailed and long, suggests a district of the judiciary and legal profession. Texas judges are elected, there is little room to interpret. When texas have a chance to form government. Tocqueville french sociologist, wrote two volumes about american government and politics. Wanted to see why it worked in america but not in france. Big fan of american local government, saw it as the key. Local government is the school of democracy and taught citizens how to vote or participate. Local government is everywhere that you see people. America works because local government is robust and participatory. Local governments were very active, aka town spirit. Blamed monarchy for destroying the local government traditions. Local government existed long before the national government. Local government was found as early as the colonies. Village town and city governments is before higher government. Governments of early texas both under mexican and republic conformed well with tocquilleve.
