Slides

1. POL 140-07
Fall 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

20. Daniel Shays

24.  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

25. Madison Franklin Sherman Paterson

27. GEORGEWASHINGTON JAMES MADISON

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

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

31.  Strengthened power of
national government

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

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

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

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

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

43. JAMES MADISON PATRICK HENRY

45.  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

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

47.  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”