Explain How The Federalists Preserve The Liberties Of The People
Lakin Laws
Dr. Baribeau
POLI 201
Position Paper #1
09/29/17
How the Federalists Preserves the Liberties of the People
In my paper, I am going to be arguing how the Federalists preserve the liberties of the people. The federalists wanted a stronger national government. They felt that establishing a larger national government was necessary to create a more perfect union. The federalists wanted to create relationships with the states and wanted the states to trust them. The federalists also claimed that a strong national government would preserve the liberties of the people the best.
To create a stronger national government and to guard against the misuse and abuse of its powers, the Federalists believe that the government should have separate powers, so they wanted to divide the governing powers up between different branches of the government. I agree with what the Federalists wanted to do here because one branch can only take so much. So, to make things easier and fair, they wanted to split the powers up. …show more content…
I also agree with the Federalists when they said that the government needed a "checks and balances" system.
This gives other parts of the government the ability to stop any unconstitutional actions between branches of the government. It guarantees that no part of the government becomes too powerful. For example, if the legislative branch is trying to make a law, the executive branch can veto the law if they do not find it Constitutional. Even though this may prevent tyranny, the checks and balances could lead to a gridlock. Meaning, a political stalemate, which is a standstill with passing laws because the law does not satisfy the needs of the
people.
All in all, I believe that the Federalists try to preserve the liberties of the people by trying to make government throughout the country fair. James Madison wrote in the Federalists Papers No. 51, "But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others … Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?" He pretty much states that the government should be equal and we need to take precautions to let the government have too much control and abuse their powers.
Dr. Baribeau
POLI 201
Position Paper #1
09/29/17
How the Federalists Preserves the Liberties of the People
In my paper, I am going to be arguing how the Federalists preserve the liberties of the people. The federalists wanted a stronger national government. They felt that establishing a larger national government was necessary to create a more perfect union. The federalists wanted to create relationships with the states and wanted the states to trust them. The federalists also claimed that a strong national government would preserve the liberties of the people the best.
To create a stronger national government and to guard against the misuse and abuse of its powers, the Federalists believe that the government should have separate powers, so they wanted to divide the governing powers up between different branches of the government. I agree with what the Federalists wanted to do here because one branch can only take so much. So, to make things easier and fair, they wanted to split the powers up. …show more content…
I also agree with the Federalists when they said that the government needed a "checks and balances" system.
This gives other parts of the government the ability to stop any unconstitutional actions between branches of the government. It guarantees that no part of the government becomes too powerful. For example, if the legislative branch is trying to make a law, the executive branch can veto the law if they do not find it Constitutional. Even though this may prevent tyranny, the checks and balances could lead to a gridlock. Meaning, a political stalemate, which is a standstill with passing laws because the law does not satisfy the needs of the
people.
All in all, I believe that the Federalists try to preserve the liberties of the people by trying to make government throughout the country fair. James Madison wrote in the Federalists Papers No. 51, "But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others … Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?" He pretty much states that the government should be equal and we need to take precautions to let the government have too much control and abuse their powers.