With this Constitution, they are planning to establish 3 different branches. The legislative branch would include a House of Representatives, which favors representation for the "large state plan", and a Senate which favors the New Jersey "small state plan;" this plan for the legislature was reached through the Great Compromise (people included in the creating of the compromises were Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, William Paterson and Edmund Randolph). This part of the government concerns me because I do not believe the House would truly represent the nation, and the Senate would be too powerful. I am concerned with the establishment of an executive branch. I don't want any one leader to have too much power in the government overall; I believe the states should have more power in the government that the national government and this executive branch would just be a diaster in the making and show resemblence to the British thrown. The executive branch would take away the state's power, would it not? The power of the new federal judiciary would take away power from the state judiciary, making justice unattainable and therefore be another way for the rich to oppress the poor. This means that with this new government we will either once again become a monarchy or fall into the hands of a corrupt aristocracy.
source: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/marryvirginia.html
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