#0178 Federalist 51, Judicial Overreach, Tate vs Florida, and The Great Divorce - Further Every Day

#0177 Federalist 51: Overreach of the Branches, Trump vs the Judicial, Tate vs Florida, Trade Wars, and more

Introduction

Federalist 51

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How shall we run a government with compartmentalized, equally powerful, and co-regulating branches which we see in the new proposed Constitution? These branches of government must be contrived so that they maintain each other in a sense of authority, duty, and honesty towards the people. Allow me to elaborate.

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To best protect the interests of the people and the institution of this government, each branch should be formed, elected, and run independently of the other two. These should hold checks and balances over each other, but with as much independence as possible in election of the office holders.

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The members of each branch should also be free to act, even incentivized to act, with the authority of each's own office. If each branch is staged to seek its own interests, while maintaining alignment with the interests of the people, the different branches will hold each other accountable. Man is basically evil so we must set the selfish interests of politicians against each other for the sake of the people.

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The people and elections are the ultimate regulator on the vices of politicians, but organizing the branches so that their individual interests check each other is crucial. We need to even separate the legislature into two houses to protect the rights of the people and the rights of the states, while making the election of each as isolated from the other as possible.

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The power of the veto in the hands of the Executive Branch is a wise implementation of policy. However, as such a thing could be abused, the veto of the Executive Branch will only be allowed to be executed after a vote in the House of Congress has brought a vote to the Senate. This will allow some dissent in the voice of the Legislative from the Executive.

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This government, with competing interests, will provide protection from mob rule and should guide the nation towards justice, and away from corruption.

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For this to work, we will need to build a government that is incapable of turning against a minority by building this set of checks and balances, which will render the many factions powerless to act to the harm of the smaller ones. This is a reliance on the chaotic nature of man and his evil to prevent evil.

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By designing the government in light of human nature and our propensity to divide ourselves, while maintaining the human rights of the minority, it will be very difficult for a majority to pervert the laws to oppress the minority.

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If Rhode Island broke off into a democracy, it is clear that it would fall into the tyranny of the majority. This new Constitution is designed to appeal to our common understanding of Godliness over our independent needs. This design should prevent the tyranny of the majority.