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Show Notes
In this episode, Jason and Matt talk about the transition the colonies made once they were independent. How did they go about creating a new government? What type of government did they want? And how did they decide?
- Articles of Confederation
- Annapolis Convention
- Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Vol I, Vol II, Vol III)
- Federalist Papers
- Federalist #10 – James Madison
- “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths”
- Federalist #28 – Alexander Hamilton (Jason incorrectly cited Federalist #78)
- “The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.”
- “Power being almost always the rival of power, the general government will at all times stand ready to check the usurpations of the state governments, and these will have the same disposition towards the general government. The people, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate. If their rights are invaded by either, they can make use of the other as the instrument of redress.” (see illustration below)
