03-14-2018, 05:53 PM
(03-14-2018, 05:36 PM)Dill Wrote: That was my understanding. Otherwise how could you get Rhode Island on board with big VA, PA and NY? When you read the Federalist Papers (e.g. 10 and 51), sounds like its all about checking and balancing. The legislature, being the most powerful branch of government, needs an internal check too, chamber vs chamber.
But Bels has apparently been reading about the actual debates in a book which may also include excerpts from letters and diary entries. Maybe we can coax him to say more about that.
The Madisonian quote comes from this publication: http://books.google.com/books?id=RUcGAAAAMAAJ&oe=UTF-8
It has a lot of enlightening information on the thoughts of the framers. The Federalist Papers were propaganda, so while they can help us to get some understanding we need to take them in that context.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
