Compromises of The U.S. Constitution

The overriding intent of the Framers was balance, to balance the rights of different groups, to balance the powers of the different branches of government, to balance the power of the states against the power of the federal government. The aristocratic Federalists believed that an elite was better suited to administer government and dispense justice, but justice was always seen as a matter of balancing the inherent rights of the individual as expressed by Locke and Rousseau, among others, and the requirements of society under the social contract. The concept of justice that drove the Framers made it necessary that both rights and responsibilities be spelled out clearly in the documents and institutions of society and that the means for deciding differences of viewpoint also be clearly delineate

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overnment was developed during the era of the Roman Republic and then revived during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Niccolo Machiavelli celebrated this revival in his The Discourses when he argued with those who believed that the people acting collectively were less wise than a single king or prince. Machiavelli found them subject to the same pressures and the same errors: I say, then, that individual men, and especially princes, may be charged with the same defects of which writers accuse the people; for whoever is not controlled by laws will commit the same errors as an unbridled multitude. (Ball & Dagger, 1991, p. 29) In America, John Adams was the premier theorist of conservatism, and he wrote: "The foundations of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people" (Ball & Dagger, 1991, p. 33). He saw the republic as the best of governments. In terms of the developing debate over the Constitution, this Anti-Federalist considered a single assembly to be inherently faulty and subject to all the vices and frailties an individual might evince. As a solution he suggested the creation of two bodies, with the smaller elected as a council from the larger. He also recomm
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