PSCI 3310 Lecture 4: FEDERALIST PAPERS 10 AND 15
30 Dec 2017
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Federalist papers 10 & 51: written by john jay, james madison, alexander hamilton under the pseudonym, Publius: articles of confederation had states behaving as nation states, free reign over their states. Irony of talking about factions when only dealing with 6% of people: counterarguments from anti-federalists. It has unique requirements and becomes independent because of the lifetime appointment of members: each department has the constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachment of others, nobody wants to give up their power. It even has a tendency to cause problems within the branch itself. It would annoy one committee in the legislature when another starts telling them what to do: the power lies in the control of the agenda. If you"re in control of what is being discussed and how it is being discussed, you have a lot of power how things are going to move through. It is then how things are going to get executed.
