POLSCI 318 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - President Of The United States, United States Congress, United States Senate

• School: Duke University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 318
• Professor: Michelle Whyman

Document Summary

Aristotle and polybius: polybius was a greek prisoner in rome. Believed that there should be a separation of the powers of governance in a way that enabled. John locke argued that the legislative power should predominate: federative power of the monarch to effectively conduct international relations, the us lumps the (cid:498)federative(cid:499) with the executive, switched days that each consul commanded the military. Ideal system of government: executive implements laws, in england, the executive and federative is the monarch, mentions courts but not much. Implements law can veto laws) function: legislative is split into the house of lords and the house of commons, same class-based division as ancient rome. Judicial power is responsible for the execution of the law. Articles of confederation: obsessed with limiting a large national government given their experience with king. Federalist papers: federalism = weak national government, power is in the states, federalists = nationalists, anti-federalists = believe in federalism, most concerned with limiting the executive power.