Page 90 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

Beers with our Founding Fathers

Our courts of law look to our history to determine the intent of

the Founding Fathers, and authors of the important historical
documents that are the core to our Country’s structure. Many

constitutional scholars opine that reading and comprehending the
Federalist Papers is important to our Constitution. These eighty-five

essays are divided into thirteen chapters of specific purpose, and
included disadvantages of the existing government, advantages of a

union, defense, taxation, branches of government and powers.
In short, the Articles did not provide Congress the authority to

enforce the Articles or laws among the states. Having experienced
oppression and unrepresented taxation at the hands of a powerful

central government, the Articles were constructed to ensure that
the central government had less authority than the individual and

collective states. The inability to enforce its own laws posed
concerns of being unable to protect individual liberties, and would

be unable to regulate competition between the states – disturbing
any balance of power. There were no checks and balances of the

central government by the states or people.
Proposed was a republic to allow for the states to be

represented over a larger legislative body, while preserving the
central government of three branches, providing for a check and

balance between each branch, as well as by the states. This form of
government would also provide better protections of the individual

liberties of the people. Moreover, this republic would provide for

the central government to have both the responsibilities and
authorities delegated to it, while delegating those unspecified to the
states. This included taxation and revenues – both the central and

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