The Federal Farmer cites a difference between a federal and consolatory government. The Farmer encourages citizens to support the federal style government and be weary of a consiladated one. Under a Federation, each state would govern themselves independently yet belong to the same government. A consolidated government is similar, also known as a Republic, would govern themselves independently, yet would fall jurisdiction to the federal government; this is to include money, commerce, laws and taxation. This is unlike a confederation where there is no central government, essentially all players belong to the same team without a coach, and all positions are equal.
Federal Farmer has quite disdain for framers of the Constitution for valid reasons, primarily so easily handing over natural rights to the government. The Anti-Federalist do leave out an important concept where the federalist set a strong precedent. The future of America. In Federal farmer's letter he strongly encourages America to stay "13 strong, " and question the ways of the Federalist. His major flaws is he does not offer enough solutions. The intent of the letter was to make the public aware. Possibly if propositions were stated to a greater degree, supporting the Anti-Federalist movement, America could have been a different nation.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Federal Farmer
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2 comments:
Jeff,
Some promising ideas here but this needed more focus. in your 2nd paragraph you needed to react the models described in your first instead of moving on to more general ideas. Also, you didn't clearly explain the different between consolidation (no states) and a republic/partial consolidation.
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Prof Hersch,
Collecting the comments that have been left I gather I am not being detailed enough. I appreciate the feed back, but in a 1-2 paragraph comment I do not quite grasp how much detail you would like. I take these blogs to be focused around a single idea or two, or more a less of a general over view on an idea.
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