POLI1042 Lecture Notes - Bicameralism, The Federalist Papers, Classical Republicanism
1 Apr 2014
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Questions regarding the form of government and the best way of life. The federalist papers: best government should lead to the best way of life. Ended up ditching the articles entirely: met in secret because lead to greater thoughtfulness. New constitution, by not making an explicit claim, would lead to godlessness great fear of anti-federalists: no religious test, publius must respond to their objections. Can people live under a government whose laws they create: reflection and choice vs accident and fate. Could be from or a lockean state of nature. Number 6: possibility of individual states fighting each other. Humans do as human does: everyone is selfish, uses historical examples of cities that were both commercial and republic and went to war, athens and carthage. England, venice, and holland also went to war (more recent examples: needed to go to war because of competition, avarice, ambition, desire to acquire, principles of classic republicanism.
