May 28, 2019 Tuesday
Bedtime Story
Alexander Hamilton - Author of 51 of the 85 Essays of The Federalist Papers
James Madison ushered in some other key
ideas regarding governance that he elaborated in The Federalist Papers.
One significant change in the model of
government introduced in the James Madison’s blueprint was the independence of
the executive from the legislature which was neither natural nor obvious.
In fact prior to the Constitutional
Convention of 1787 the executive of the states were duty bound to the
legislature resulting in paralysis of the state governments.
An additional crucial point of the James
Madison’s blueprint and that has direct bearing with our story at hand was his strong
belief that a judiciary working under and appointed by the executive, as was
the case in the states until then, would lead to corruption of the judiciary
through patronage.
He believed that any direct link that could
exist between the executive and judiciary had to be severed and for this a
“third branch” of the government had to be created which would be the
judiciary.
This was truly an original idea never ever
before considered at least in the Western history.
Of course, they all knew that no judiciary
could be totally independent since someone had to appoint the judges and the consensus
was reached that it would be the president that would choose the judges and it
would be Senate who would ratify them.
Alexander Hamilton who was the delegate
from New York made the following argument which gives a fair estimate of the intellectual
prowess and thoughtfulness that these men carried in their heads.
They understood the importance or rather
the dangers of laying too much powers on one side.
“All communities divide themselves into the
few and the many.
The first are the rich and the well born,
the other the mass of the people.
The voice of the people has been said to be
the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted, it is not
true in fact.
The people are turbulent and changing; they
seldom judge or determine right.
Give therefore to the first class a
distinct, permanent share in the government.
They will check the unsteadiness of the
second, and as they cannot receive any advantage a change, they therefore will
ever maintain good government.
Can a democratic assembly, who annually
resolve in the mass of the people, be supposed steadily to pursue the public
good?
Nothing but a permanent body can check the
imprudence of democracy.
Their turbulent and uncontroling
disposition requires check.”
You can see how mistrustful these men were
in entrusting the entire governance directly to the masses of people without
any control or checks.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
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