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This document laid out in detail what the federal government would be able to do -- and everything else would be what state governments could oversee. The purpose of this was to ensure that the federal government would guard against "factions and convulsions" among the individual states (Federalist No. 6, n.d.). Thus, the federal government envisioned by the Federalists was one that was strong and capable of overriding states' rights at important levels of power. Such a federal government would ensure that the states would not fight or become "entangled in all the pernicious labyrinths off European politics and wars" (Federalist No. 7, n.d.). In short, the federal government would be the real government overseeing all the smaller governments of the individual states.
And this is exactly what the Anti-Federalists objected to. They did not want a central, federal government overseeing the individual states because that amounted to the giving up of sovereignty to a small, powerful group at the federal level. The Anti-Federalists wanted each state to have their own government because this was more representative of the democratic Republican ideals -- localized, de-centralized authority -- power that was in the hands of…
America went from being a loose union of individual states to being a nation with a central government when the Constitution was ratified. This was more important than the War for Independence, because it dictated the type of government we would have. The Federalists, led by Hamilton, wanted a strong central government. The Anti-Federalists wanted every state to be its own government. The guiding question of this essay is: Should
That with the limitations articulated in the constitution that gives the people some declarative authority in how government is suppose to run then the common man would feel his or her best interest would be represented (Brandes 2009). That is, in part, the reason why the language for the preamble was so carefully worded, to seem all-inclusive. This all inclusiveness though, also inherently, and at the time, did not include
Government corruption is encouraged by unrestrained financial contributions by lobbying groups. Members of Congress continue to force legislation that has proven to be fraudulent, such as the Cap and Trade legislation. An inspector general was improperly fired, which violated a law he co-authored. Members of Congress and other leaders show a tendency to ignore questions regarding these issues by the public. Legislation such as the U.S. Patriot Act tends to ignore certain provisions by
The Preamble to the Constitution establishes the tone of the remainder of the document, underscoring the most important feature of a government that is empowered by the will of the people. “We the people,” the first three words of the Preamble, is one of the most important phrases in American political history. With the simple but all-important first person plural pronoun, the framers begin with a resounding sense of what
Articles of Confederation: The Articles of Confederation were approved in November, 1777 and were the basic format for what would become the Constitution and Bill of Rights for the United States. There were, of course, deficiencies in the document, this was a new experiment and getting the delegates to agree in kind to pass any sort of document was challenging at best. The Articles did allow a semblance of unity,
Mill and U.S. Constitution None of the issues being raised today by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement are new, but rather they date back to the very beginning of the United States. At the time the Constitution was written in 1787, human rights and civil liberties were far more constrained than they are in the 21st Century. Only white men with property had voting rights for example, while most states