American Heritage #2
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Federalist Paper #78
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judicial can't be tyrannical it: 1) interpret laws 2) can be impeached 3) defends Constitution and will of people 4) skilled at job
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Federalist Paper #84
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Written by Alexander Hamilton; why we don't need a Bill of Rights; counter argument is Brutus II
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Federalist Paper #51
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Separation of powers; checks and balances
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Federalist Paper #10
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Factions are good; control effects through republic; counterargument is Brutus I; 2 ways to remove factions 1) destroy liberty 2) make all same interests
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Gettysburg Address
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Abraham Lincoln; be more dedicated to liberty
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
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Fredrick Douglass; you're all a butt load of hypocrites
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Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
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Women want equality like men in wages, family status, and government influence
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Why the Constitution Matters
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Mark Tushnet; Constitution doesn't guarantee rights, but Supreme Court does; does matter, but not for why we think; sets up frame of house for us to live in
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What the Framers Couldn't Know
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Robert Dahl; no past knowledge; little opportunities; things left out: slavery, suffrage, election of president, senators, equal representation, judicial power etc, fundamentally altered by politics
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Letter to James Madison
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Thomas Jefferson; I like what you've done, but i don't like: no Bill of Rights, lack of term limits
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Amendments to the Constitution
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James Madison and the Creation of American Republic CH 5
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Jack Rokove; believed strong government was the only way; factions check each other; states didn't want to do right thing; veto was necessary to check legislative
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James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic CH 6
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Jack Rokove; history of what happened
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Brutus I
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Written by an Anti-Federalist; small republic is the way to go; counterargument to Federalist Paper #10
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Brutus II
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Anti-federalist; people will use power to be selfish; the national government is taking power; counterargument to Federalist Paper # 84
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Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
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Abraham Lincoln; the war is over; put aside hate and lets build this God-fearing country back up together
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3 Structural Devices (separations of powers/ how to keep power in check)
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1) bicameral house 2) indirect election 3) enumeration too much= deadlock too little=tyranny
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Slavery in the Constitution
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1) 3/5 clause 2) couldn't abolish slavery for 20 more years 3) fugitives were returned
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Ratification:
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overstepped purpose of Convention; lacked a Bill of Rights; without New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, would have failed; broad and narrow rights in Bill of Rights
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2 American Ideologies
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Democratic-Republicans: Jefferson Madison wanted return to farms Federalist Party: Hamilton and Adams wanted a great empire
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Election cycles
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1) Americans punish party in power when things go wrong 2) Primaries require candidates to be more R/L 3) General elections require candidates to be in the middle 4) Turnout of the independent is important
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Deep change effects on Government
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Who participates? Opens door into democracy
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Problems of the West
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how to give out land? Northwest ordinance (Jefferson)
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Age of Jackson
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democratization (outgrowth of Founding); applauded states' rights; public togetherness; political machine took over and bribed people to vote (party newspaper/political machine)
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Slavery
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Used in tobacco, rice, cotton, sugar; Lincoln overcame checks and balances to win the war
