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This 4 page paper discusses a quotation about lawmaking, and whether or not it accurately reflects American politics. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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needs a speech for an event at which she is to receive an honorary doctorate. This paper discusses the quotation the Senator suggests as a basis for her speech, and
whether or not it accurately reflects American politics. Discussion Since we need it to work on, heres the whole quotation: "Every institution calculated to restrain too much lawmaking, and to
keep things in the same state in which they happen to be at any given period, is much more likely to do good than harm; it is preferable to have
stability in our system of legislation and politics. The harms which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the benefits of preventing
a number of bad ones." What does this really mean, and does it have any bearing on how politics actually works? The quotation appears to suggest that any system that
will prevent many bad laws from being passed, even at the expense of a few good ones, is desirable. It also suggests that keeping things as they are, or were
in the past, is also desirable. At first glance this may seem silly, but in some respects its actually the way the Constitution works. In explaining why its not a
good idea to "work around" the Constitution, John Samples writes that James Madison identified the U.S. Constitution with "popular government," but this is not to be construed to mean "unimpeded
majority rule. Instead, the Founders sought to constitute the will of the people through institutions that restrained and refined the exercise of power" (Samples, 2007, p. 17). Our government
is constructed so that laws "must gain the consent of three different constituencies: districts in the House, states in the Senate, and the nation with the president" (Samples, 2007, p.
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