Early in our history, three of our founding fathers worked together to strengthen our country.
James Madison had designed our "hybrid" government such that power was divided among the states and the federal government, and also among the three branches of the federal government, such that we have a "majority rule" governance which protecting the "inalienable rights of the minority or even an individual.
Hamilton sought to strengthen the federal government's power over the states, by getting congress to pass a law that caused the federal government to "assume" the debts of the various states they had incurred in support of our war of independence.
Madison opposed the law, and they were at impasse.
In steps our much misaligned Thomas Jefferson! He brought the two previous collaborators in the Federalist Papers together and a deal was made. Madison would get the Federal capital set on the Potomac, and Hamilton would get the assumption of state debt. The effect over the years was to shift supremacy to the federal government and provide sufficient economic strength to survive the Civil War and two World Wars.
James Madison had designed our "hybrid" government such that power was divided among the states and the federal government, and also among the three branches of the federal government, such that we have a "majority rule" governance which protecting the "inalienable rights of the minority or even an individual.
Hamilton sought to strengthen the federal government's power over the states, by getting congress to pass a law that caused the federal government to "assume" the debts of the various states they had incurred in support of our war of independence.
Madison opposed the law, and they were at impasse.
In steps our much misaligned Thomas Jefferson! He brought the two previous collaborators in the Federalist Papers together and a deal was made. Madison would get the Federal capital set on the Potomac, and Hamilton would get the assumption of state debt. The effect over the years was to shift supremacy to the federal government and provide sufficient economic strength to survive the Civil War and two World Wars.