POLS 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Supremacy Clause

• School: Cal Poly
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 112
• Professor: Mulholland

Document Summary

Interests groups that form that can amount to a majority or minority: the founding fathers wanted to preserve private privileges and rights. What is essential for a free government: uses an analogy (building, there needs to be solid foundation. Defects of the new system of government: the power of the central government will be more concentrated and that is a threat to securing liberties. It lacks a bill of rights: represe(cid:374)tatio(cid:374) i(cid:374) the legislature is (cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)al (cid:862)a shadow represe(cid:374)tatio(cid:374)(cid:863, nominal: it not truly representative, it says it is. No equality of representation in either house: house of representatives, chosen in proportion to the number of inhabitants in the states. It will have an elite bias: the elites will be elected and not represent the other classes (lower and middle, can the small amount of people represent the large amount of people.