POLI 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Federalist Papers, Roger B. Taney, Connecticut Compromise
31 Jan 2017
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Constitutional convention: may 1787, purpose was to solve economic/military issues by strengthening central government. Tension between large and small states over methods of representation: disagreement over new jersey plan and virginia plan led to the great. The virginia plan (favored large states: popular sovereignty, national law is supreme, bicameral legislature: representation in both houses based on population. The new jersey plan (favored small states: state sovereignty, state law is supreme, unicameral legislature: one vote per state. Great compromise: the constitutional solution to congressional representation, equal votes in the senate, votes by population in the house. Federalism: power divided between central authority and political subunits. Ambition vs ambition paper 51, how you control govt. State-centered federalism (1789-1819: power left to the states unless specified, limited national power, power held at state and local levels, reinforced by thomas jefferson when in office (1801)
