FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

The Four Foundations of American Government

The Four Foundations of American Government

The book, "The Four Foundations of American Government" by Paul K Conklin (1994) is a very intresting piece of work. the main focus of the author is on Consent, Limits, Balance, and Participation. In the introductory section the author describes the our consent behind the constitutional effort as our dream that governs our society. While considering the limits, Conklin (1994) explains that when the Founding Fathers came jointly they wanted to divide from Britain because their home country was daunting its will on them without any colonial image in British legislatures (Conklin, 1994). Later, with popular ideals in brain, the Framers of the Constitution made a draft the article that rules our society. They promised to conceive the base for a powerful homeland that would not heal its civilian as England did. Unfortunately, the Constitution, at its ratification, dropped considerably short on numerous popular ideals. Thus, participation remained highlighy valuable.

While there are some points of likely consideration, three exact matters, slavery, universal suffrage and the election of senators and the President apparently illustrate the restricted popular facets of the Constitution as initially written. However, before considering how the Constitution falls short to be "highly democratic," one should realise what is intended by highly democratic. Succinctly, a highly popular constitution desires to apparently characterise and assurance privileges to all its citizens. Democracy needs free talk, varied vying concerns, the means for those concerns to comprise themselves democratically and a firm following of "majority rules." Likewise no assembly can be refuted their rights. Finally, people should be empowered with the right to ballot and representatives in the government should be exactly voted into agency by a most ballot of the people. (Conklin, 1994)

Slavery refuted blacks their privileges for nearly a century years after the ratification of the Constitution displaying one of the clearest indications that the Constitution was not highly democratic. As asserted overhead the right for all assemblies to leverage the regulations that rule them are rudimentary tenets of a democracy. This is apparently contravened by slavery because a slave has no privileges, no political power and thus no way of enacting change on its own behalf. This dynamic, as clarified in Madison's Federalist 10, where a most tyranny will not live, collapses because the few assembly that are influenced are not empowered with the administration to ...