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- Explains the history behind the drafting of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and the Federalist Documents.
- Analyzes how the Supreme Court has used and interpreted the Federalist Documents.
"It's been frequently remarked that it appears to acquire been reserved to the people of this country, by their carry out and example, to decide the key question, whether societies of men are really ready or not of creating good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to be dependent for their politics constitutions on accident and power. If there be any truth in the remark, the turmoil at which we have been arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era where that decision is to be made." (Alexander Hamilton, Federalist number 1) In 1787, delegates from the recently indie 13 colonies achieved in Philadelphia to attempt to forge a new, more robust constitution. That summer months, the staff ironed out a file that had pluses and minuses for all included, a point known by Ben Franklin in explaining why he assented to it by the end of the procedure: "For, when you assemble lots of men to have the good thing about their joint intelligence, you inevitably assemble with those men almost all their prejudices, their passions, their problems of view, their local hobbies, and their selfish views. From this set up can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this technique approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I believe it'll astonish our enemies, who are holding out with confidence to know that our councils are confounded like those of the builders of Babel; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of slicing one another's throats. Thus I consent, sir, to the constitution because I expect no better and because I am not sure that it is not the best."
