Madison 2 Aashish Patel HIS-221 Sarah Wiley

Ans1a. In chapter six, The great Convention we are in the Philadelphia. Ans1b. The Months and the year we are in the Convention are May through September 1787. Ans2a. The single most important change the committee proposed concerned the scope of legislative power. It also replaced the board and open ended wording of the Virginia plan with a long but specific list of the powers the new congress would exercise, including the authority to levy taxes, regulate foreign and interstate commerce, make war and raise armies, and coin money. Government can act on this list in every area where the states were Incompetent. (Madison 76) Ans2b. Specific powers the congress have by August 18 are they should be able to grant copyrights, establish a university, and make provision for the the advancement of useful knowledge and discoveries, (Madison 76) Ans3. He acted as a man of the Enlightenment, because he used his knowledge and

advancement in the discoveries. He did his job because enlightenment says that God have send us here to use our ability to reason and use our knowledge to improve this world. Ans4. By late August, then, Madison recognizes that the state government would retain more power than he originally hoped, and through the election of the senate, greater

influence than he thought prudent. But he still struggled to augment national power wherever he could. He favored giving congress the power to tax exports, to regulate the state militia, and to alter state procedures for electing national representatives whenever circumstances required it. Also he agrees that laws regulating commerce should pass by simple majorities not the two-thirds margin. (Madison 77) Ans5. He was gloomy at the convention because he wanted people to elect the House and House elects the Senate. Large state has more power than the small states. He believed that states end up with too much power. Ans6a. The chapter 7 is about vindicating the constitution, and Madison was working to get convention ratify. Ans6. In federalist 10, Madison explained with brilliant rigor why the National

Government would cure the mischief s of faction, but he did not bother to note those same evils would still plague the states. number One is applies here. Ans7. In Federalist 51 he explained that give each department the Constitutional means and personal means to resist encroachments of the others. Dividing Congress into two houses vested with different powers would erect a first line of defense against improper laws. But since in republican government the legislative authority necessarily (Madison 83) The principle of the constitution

predominates, the greater challenge was to enable the two weaker branches t resist its dangerous encroachments. (Madison 85) The principle of the constitution number two applies here. Ans8. It is not the glory of the people of the America, he asked, that they have not

suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for customs, or for names, to overrule the

suggestion of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lesson of their own experience? (Madison 86) Ans9. Why doesn t James Madison run for election in the Senate and instead run for election in the House of Representatives?

Ans10. As he works up his proposed Amendments he found out that, The second of particular interest held that No state shall violate the equal rights of conscience, or the freedom of the press, or the trial by jury in the criminal cases. But in his views, this was the most valuable amendment on the whole list. (Madison 98) Ans11. It was not until the adoption of the fourteenth Amendment in 1868 would the federal government have firm constitutional basis for acting as the James Madison of 178789 has hoped it would. (Madison 98) Ans12. Madison regards Hamilton as the best qualified candidate to head the treasury. (Hamilton 102) Ans13. As Rakove states, Hamilton held the most expansive ideas of the executive power, and the most sophisticated understanding of public finance. (Hamilton 102)