POSC 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Comparative Politics, Jeffersonian Democracy, Jacksonian Democracy

• School: JMU
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC 225
• Professor: Kwanda Trice

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Declaration of independence: a call to revolution liberty, equality, individual rights, self-government, lawful powers, philosophy of john locke. Give up some of our rights for liberty for everybody: thomas jefferson. Political science (analyzing): american government, international relation, comparative politics, constitutional law, black politics. Politics (cid:449)hat"s goi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) i(cid:374) our go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t right (cid:374)o(cid:449) Political science think critically of government formation. Articles of confederation: adopted during the revolutionary war, created weak national government. Be(cid:272)ause did(cid:374)"t control the states: tates retai(cid:374)ed (cid:862)so(cid:448)ereig(cid:374)ty, freedo(cid:373) a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863, prohibited congress from interfering in states commerce policies, prohibited congress from taxation. A nation dissolving: raised fears about the weakness of the national government, weakened congress nation dissolving, hay"s re(cid:271)ellio(cid:374, motivated congress to authorize a convention in philadelphia to revise articles of confederation. The great compromise: a two-chamber congress: virginia (large-state) plan, nj (small-state) plan, connecticut great compromise 2 chamber congress. Negotiating toward a constitution: the three fifths compromise, congress agreed not to tax exports.