GOVT 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Big Country
18 Jun 2018
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Federalist Papers
•Written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton
•attempting to convince the NY state officials to ratify the Constitution
•#10: Written by Madison
•Constitution can protect against factions
•we’re unable to destroy factions, so this protection is the next best thing
•Senate gives equal representation so minorities are heard
•this appeals to anti-federalists who thought America was too big and diverse to
have a federalist government and minorities still be protected
•#39: written by Madison
•discusses if US government is national or federal
•here, Madison’s use of federal is really by definition describing a confederal
government
•neither wholly national nor wholly federal
•compound republic: mixture of principles of confederation and a national
government
•What US is
•#51: written by Madison
•checks and balances
•people are greedy and power hungry- that knowledge needs to be included in our
government’s structure
•protect minority from majority
•double security: federal and state separation as well as branches within both
•extended republic: big country more likely to survive because varieties of interests
and opinions means its unlikely one will be a super majority
•9 papers overall on taxation: most popular subject
•it was a shocker for people that the federal government could tax (fear of
government becoming like King George III)
•took extra convincing for people to accept this
