... self-interest. It's more exclusive rather than inclusive. From the birth of federalism in America during the formulation of the new constitution at the Philadelphia convention, elitism has shown itself. Anti-federalists said the new constitution was a class-based document intended to ensure that a particular economic elite controlled the public policies of the national government. An anti-federalist under the alias "Cornelius" said, "Thus, I conceive, a foundation is laid for ... throwing the whole power of the federal government into the hands of those who are in the mercantile interes...

• Word Count: 1499
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... go ahead and grab a weapon and try to "Regulate" the government into making things go the way they want. The American government at the time was divided as we are today, but instead of having the Democratic and Republican Party they had the Federalists and Non-Federalists. Both the Federalist and Non-Federalists believed in allowing citizens to have gun, what was different ... carry their own firearm in the case that if they were attacked they could be quick to defend themselves rather than have to wait for a long time for the federal army to arrive.The debate between the Federalist and...

• Word Count: 1918
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... In short, a federal system, by virtue of the decentralization of authority, lowers the cost of organized political activity. The people whose aim is to satisfy local interests locally acquire political power. As a result, though the national government has come to vast powers, it exercises many of those powers through state governments. Thus, James Madison argued in Federalist no. 10 that it would be in a ... large Federalist republic such as the United States, that one would find the greatest opportunity for all relevant interests to be heard. United States ... has a vast social divers...

• Word Count: 1375
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... period was to separate politics from administration, but with the rise of strong political parties and human social nature to form into factions or parties, it may just be inevitable that politics are a major player in a democratic system from the local level up and through the national level. Madison writes in The Federalist 10 Papers, "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in ... the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to ... the different circumstances of civil society."(Madison 79) The ways in which political parties ...

• Word Count: 1919
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... could lead the country to ruins. They were also very much in favor of a rule that was based on multiple beliefs as well as rules, and this came to be through their system of divided powers. "In a free government", stated Madison in Federalist 51, "the security for civil rights must be the same as ... for religious rights . . . It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects." Differences of opinion are what allow this country to ... . Times have definitely changed. Who would have though that blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanic...

• Word Count: 1905
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... basic freedoms. Why didn't the Constitution have a bill of rights? The Federalists, who did not see the need for a bill of rights, felt that a list of specific rights was not necessary. In fact, it was detrimental to protecting individual rights. The opinion of Federalists (as written by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper No. 84) was that if the Constitution contained a list of ... specific individual rights and liberties that the national government COULD NOT abuse then it might ENABLE the national government to abuse areas of liberty that were NOT specifically prescribed ... in t...

• Word Count: 1763
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School