If you open your wallet and pull out a ten dollar bill, the face of one of our founding fathers, James Madison, will be staring back at you. Early in our school careers we are taught, if not in detail, about the constitution and the men who wrote it. As we progress we learn in more and more detail about the Philadelphia Convention and many of the key players including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. However, all the average students’ education on James Madison will include is that he played a role in the penning of the Constitution, how crucial his contribution was is often glossed over entirely. Madison had very clear views on humanity and government and what the new American Government needed to be successful.
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Madison believed the property of an individual could be divided into two categories: the first being physical property such as land or goods and the second their ownership of their rights. He acknowledged however that ownership of rights was seemingly useless without physical property. Madison believed in the individual’s right to acquire property, however, he was confronted by the reality of the limited quantity of property. Once all property was owned there would no longer be an equal opportunity which would leave some people more free than others. Madison had a difficult time balancing these two views on property and in the end came down for mans right to property over mans property of rights. Linked to Madison’s views on property are his views on economic dealings. Madison believed that the private sector should be relatively free of government interference so long as they continued to operate by the rules that governed the economic and social spheres. However, in exchange for this freedom Madison believed that these groups should be denied immediate and direct political power.
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There is a shortage of jobs and an overabundance of people looking for them. There are nine unemployed persons looking for every job opening available (Edsall 13). 15.1 percent of the population is living in poverty (Edsall 15). More and more people are depending on public assistance. Medicaid has received five million new recipients in the past decade (Edsall 15). While more people are becoming dependent on government aid the government is struggling to cut back on spending in an attempt to slow the rising deficit (Edsall 19). However, while the poor are getting poorer, the rich of America is continuing to get richer. The top twenty percent of income recipients make almost forty-eight percent of income earned in the nation. Likewise, average weekly wages are the same as they were forty years ago (Dye
Madison believed the property of an individual could be divided into two categories: the first being physical property such as land or goods and the second their ownership of their rights. He acknowledged however that ownership of rights was seemingly useless without physical property. Madison believed in the individual’s right to acquire property, however, he was confronted by the reality of the limited quantity of property. Once all property was owned there would no longer be an equal opportunity which would leave some people more free than others. Madison had a difficult time balancing these two views on property and in the end came down for mans right to property over mans property of rights. Linked to Madison’s views on property are his views on economic dealings. Madison believed that the private sector should be relatively free of government interference so long as they continued to operate by the rules that governed the economic and social spheres. However, in exchange for this freedom Madison believed that these groups should be denied immediate and direct political power.
2. Current …show more content…
There is a shortage of jobs and an overabundance of people looking for them. There are nine unemployed persons looking for every job opening available (Edsall 13). 15.1 percent of the population is living in poverty (Edsall 15). More and more people are depending on public assistance. Medicaid has received five million new recipients in the past decade (Edsall 15). While more people are becoming dependent on government aid the government is struggling to cut back on spending in an attempt to slow the rising deficit (Edsall 19). However, while the poor are getting poorer, the rich of America is continuing to get richer. The top twenty percent of income recipients make almost forty-eight percent of income earned in the nation. Likewise, average weekly wages are the same as they were forty years ago (Dye