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The Pros And Cons Of Federalist 10

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“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” (Madison Fed 51). Madison’s Federalist Papers outlined how James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay believed the government should be and needed to be organized and run, or government would be destroyed. Federalist 10 identified the need for two factions, where the ambitions of one faction could be counteracted by the ambition of the second faction. The fear of the tyranny of the king of Britain lay fresh in the minds of the founders, and did not want to be governed by the tyranny of a majority. Two methods were outlined in Federalist 10 to cull this fear. The first option is …show more content…

the reasons for the staggered elections exist so that the congress is always moving forward, bringing in new ideas each elections, preventing a tyranny of republicans and democrats with ever changing seats. The Primaries exist to propel the right candidate forward. 2008 for example, with Hillary Clinton and Barack obama both running for the democratic slot for president. The primaries exist to allow the people and the party to vote on who they want to run for president, so they are positive that they are getting the right candidate for the party, and that the people are getting the right candidate to represent their vote, their city, their state and their country for the …show more content…

All laws start as bills. Any one can draft a bill, a congressman, the President, even Mr. Hughes if wanted something accomplished. Anyone can draft a bill, but only a congressman can put the bill into the bill box. From the bill box it is given to the speaker of the house, who decides which committee receives the bill for the lengthy editing process. The real power of the Speaker of the House is deciding which committee gets the bill, whether he wants the bill to pass or be thrown out. Inside the committees there are subcommittees that where a committee is a large idea, like the Senate armed forces Committee, the sub committees such as the seapower committee. after a long editing process the bill is either passed or trashed. if passed and in the house the next committee the bill goes to is the rules committee, where the date and how long the bill is argued for will be decided. If in the senate, the bill will go to the majority and minority leaders, and they decide when the bill will be brought for the entire senate. again it is argued in the senate or the house and it will either be trashed or passed here too. Finally the bill should be a law right, nope, the bill has to be passed in the other house of congress. finally once it has been passed in both compartments, if the wording is not the same a conference committee meets, with representatives from both the house and senate deciding the final wording of the bill, only

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