F#1F#2 Federalism and Separation of Powers and Bicameral legislatures, help both diffuse the power and protectAmerica from mobocracy, or fear of masses running wild. Federalism spreads power out in 3 levels ofgovernment--fed, states, and local. And Montisquieu’s principle of Sep. of powers creates 3 branches withability to check and balance other branches. Finally, a bicameral legislature was adopted with lower housewhere all spending bills (most important one) had to originate and an upper house or Senate made up of richhighly educated landowners who could check/veto any lower house bill they disapproved of, thus preventingthe lower house from turning into what Johns Adams referred to as a Roman-style “mobocracy.”F#31.Issues were big states v. little states; 2. slave states v. free states; 3. powers of the presidency & 4.anti-federalists fear of accidentally recreating another tyrannical central government like England.
