POL 140 SP15 Poltiics American Founding

1. POL 140-04
Spring 2015

3.  Written over 200 years
ago in Philadelphia
 Oldest written
constitution in the
modern world
 Many governments
used it as a model for
their political system

5. Virginia House of Burgesses, 1619

7. Sugar Act (1764)
Stamp Act (1765)

8. Declaratory Act (1766)
Townshend Acts (1767)
Charles Townshend,
Chancellor of the Exchequer

9. Tea Act (1773)
BostonTea Party

12.  “Virtual Representation”
First Continental Congress

14. Franklin Livingston Adams
Sherman Jefferson

15. The Social Contract
“Consent of
the Governed”
Locke

17.  States had one vote
 Changing laws required
nine of thirteen state
legislatures to agree
 Fundamental changes
had to be unanimous

18.  No power to draft
soldiers or pay for
military
 No power to regulate
commerce
 No power to tax

19. Daniel Shays

23.  55 men from 12 states
 Colonial elite - Had public service background
 Service in Continental Congress
 Fought in Revolutionary War
 Been a state governor or served as state legislator

24. Madison Franklin Sherman Paterson

26. GEORGEWASHINGTON JAMES MADISON

27.  States received one vote
 Did NOT record votes
 Proceedings were secret

28.  Large States and Small States
 North and South
 States and Federal Government

30.  Strengthened power of
national government

31.  Bicameral (two house)
national legislature
 Members of lower
chamber apportioned
by population
 Gave legislature much
broader authority
than under Articles
James Madison

32.  Unicameral
(one house) legislature
 Equal representation
regardless of
population
William Paterson

33.  Bicameral (two house)
legislature
 Lower chamber
(House) based on
population
 Upper chamber
(Senate) based on
equality
Roger Sherman

35.  How should slaves be counted in
allocating congressional representation?
 Decision: Three-Fifths Compromise

37.  “Enumerated” Powers
 Those powers “herein granted”
 Included:
 Power to raise an army
 Power to raise taxes
 Provide for general welfare of nation

42. JAMES MADISON PATRICK HENRY

44.  Responds to Anti-Federalist critiques
 Danger lay in factions
 What is a faction?
 A group of citizens sharing an interest different
from interests of another group or nation

45. REMOVING CAUSES
 Destroy Liberty
 Same Opinion
CONTROLLING EFFECTS
 Representative
Government

46.  Responding to Anti-Federalist thought that
Constitution will bring tyranny
 Deals with separation of powers through
checks and balances
 “Ambition must be made to counteract
ambition”