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Federalist #70 Assignment
Read Federalist #70 and answer the following questions:
1.
What does Hamilton mean when he refers to "energy"?
1.
By referring to energy, Hamilton means that a well-functioning government must
be active and constantly trying to improve the country in some way, shape or
form. The executive, especially the president, is responsible for creating the
conditions for the generation and maintenance of this energy.
2.
What does Hamilton say about property rights?
1.
Hamilton argues that Energy in Executive is essential to protect property. In
Hamilton's view, property rights are important and require as much energy from
the executive to maintain them as protecting the community against foreign
invasion or the administration of the state. In the literature, it is listed before the
rights to freedom.
3.
Why does Hamilton put property rights before rights to liberty?
1.
By guaranteeing the right to life and property and its proper fulfillment, the
government determines the conditions of existence and freedom. Thus, Hamilton
places the right to life and the protection of property before freedom.
4.
Is a plural executive the right thing or is it important to have only one executive?
1.
According to Hamilton, the president, our chief executive, must have energy and
ability. Only in this way will we achieve the unity required by a well-functioning
government. When power is given to two or more equally distributed persons, or
when the executive power is allowed to answer to others, the unity is destroyed.
Hamilton cites Rome as an example of the failures that a pluralistic administrative
or deliberative parliament can produce. The ambition of a single individual should
be feared no more than a multi-valued administrative structure.
5.
Do you think we have adhered to Hamilton in our current system? Why/why not?
1.
We follow
Hamilton in our present
system in several
ways. Executive remains the
most powerful single person
in the country, even
the world, and is designed
to
protect what
we value most,
our freedom.
However, in recent
decades there has
been
much debate about
the proper role of the president
and what powers he
should have. I believe it
is the disintegration
of unity that
we are witnessing
now,
as we see some trying
to subordinate the president
to legislative power, while
others divide
the power of the president
to redistribute it
elsewhere. At least for
now, we'll stick with
Hamilton.
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