UNIT%204:%20How%20Have%20the%20Values%20and%20Principles%20Embodied%20in%20the%20Constitution%20Shaped%20American%20Institutions%20and%20Practices?

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UNIT 4 How Have the Values and Principles
Embodied in the Constitution Shaped American
Institutions and Practices?
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PRINCIPLES

• Popular sovereignty
• Natural rights
• Limited government
• Political equality
• Rule of law

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VALUES Federalist 37

• Liberty
• Energy
• Stability

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LIBERTY

• Demands all power be dependent on the people
• Requires trust in many, not few, hands

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ENERGY

• Requires certain duration of power
• Calls for execution by a single hand

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STABILITY

• Requires power to continue for a length of time
• Requires barrier to the encroachments and
  oppressions of the representative body (judicial
  function) (78)

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Consequence. . .

• Large representative bodies/committees
• Single executive
• Plural administrative agencies
• Multiple-judge appellate courts

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Constitutional Challenges

• Mingling liberty, energy, stability in their
  due proportions in national government
• Marking proper line of partition between
  national and state governments

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Unit 4 Are liberty, energy and stability
properly mingled today?

• Do the legislative, executive and judicial
  departments control each other through separation
  of powers/checks balances?
• Do the different governments (state and national)
  control each other?

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National level

• Does theory of Federalist 51 work?
• Are interest(s) of the man. . .connected to the
  constitutional rights of the place?
• Impact of political parties?
• Presidential displacement of Congress?
• Imperial courts?
• Has the extended republic become too big?

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Federalism

• Do state governments provide security . . .to
  the rights of the people?

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  Liberty Energy Stability
Congress      
President      
Bureaucracy      
Courts      
States      
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