POL 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Indirect Election, Direct Election, Enumerated Powers

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 313
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

Document Summary

Articles ii is about the executive branch, the president. James madison did not bring a lot to the table for the executive branch: notes on the presidency very spare. Each state had a president/governor of the state in the articles appointed by the state legislatures: legislature controlled the governor, etc, 1 year term. When making the constitution, thought the governor in the states were too weak and the legislatures were too powerful because they controlled everything: controversial at constitutional convention. The president would be a check on the whole congress, but really wanted him to be a check on the house: wanted him to be powerful to do this. Were also afraid of having a president because afraid of one person having too much power: some people thought it should be a committee of 3. Decided not to do a committee because it would be difficult to coordinate anything: these 3 people would fight internally and wouldn"t apply much force.