Federalist 41 How do you, in some way, judge the power of the national gov't? -> You look at the number of objects giving the gov't power. ![]() ![]() is kind of a radical departure from current forms of republican gov't. Federalist 39 Is the Constitution in conformity with republican ideas? -> The U.S. Liberty and stability, on the other hand, would be kept by shorter terms. In regards to term limits: Energy and power seem to depend on longer periods of time. Federalist 37 The light of past republics are not to follow, but rather to lead us away from the dangers of past failures. Hamilton, in some ways, is suggesting that the founding fathers, in establishing the Constitution, needed to think of how they wanted the nation to turn out. For this reason, Alexander Hamilton anticipates that the U.S. The founding fathers didn't want to tie the hands of Congress, but this does however look like an enormous grant of power. Rather, no one knows what the needs of the U.S. There is no limitation to taxation by the federal gov't, but this is not out of greed. Federalist 34 Hamilton is arguing that the unlimited power of taxation is not going to undermine state sovereignty. ![]() The federal gov't consist of war, peace, and commerce. The ambitious will be those who enter into public life. Federalist 17 Why does Hamilton think that the state gov'ts would be more likely to encroach upon the federal gov't? -> Because this is what we've seen in antiquity. The founding fathers believed that checks and balances can achieve what was thought could be achieved by virtue (because although virtue is nice, the citizenry can't be relied upon to possess it). No pure democracy like Athens, no camp like Sparta, and no instability of Rome (the back-and-forth of tyranny and anarchy). Were ancient confederacies a model for the founding fathers? To an extent.they were rather negative examples for the founding fathers to avoid.
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