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Here's Bill McClay.
Okay. Mm-hmm.
So the Constitution had been drafted. had been approved. But it didn't automatically take effect.
Now it had to be ratified. ratified by the respective states. And this was not going to be easy. There was a real fear of any expansion of power, of centralized power, of national power. And not without reason.
Founders had understood this was going to be a difficult thing. But they also understood there needed to be that kind of popular approbation, that popular approval. Of the Constitution for it to be legitimate, for it to be accepted by the people. as their ruling document. They crafted Article VII of the Constitution with this end in view.
That the Constitution would become law by the conventions of nine. of the 13 states. Why conventions? They could have done it. The obvious, easy way to do it would be to use the state legislatures.
of the 13 states. But this was a very, very smart move on the part of the proponents of the Constitution. Conventions were different from the state legislatures. You might have some of the same people. Because you would probably want to elect among the most eminent people in your state.
To both the legislature and the state ratification convention. But the conventions had to be large enough To encompass lots of interest groups, lots of members. And even with some of the same people, they would act differently. They would be freer to participate in a deliberation and discussion. There would be a greater willingness to consider change.
If it wasn't coming from the body, that was being changed. Very, very smart. The debate that proceeded. state by state, split into two, roughly two camps. The Federalists, a very tightly organized group led by Madison and Hamilton and a few others.
seeking the ratification of the Constitution. And the anti-Federalists, a term that is much more used by us than was at the time. It's a kind of grab bag of all the people who supported the existing framework over the Constitution. They have a different view. of the country.
The Federalists really looked towards the new United States as a nation state. able to stand proudly among the nations of the world. A magnet for foreign investment that would be able to conduct foreign policy, foreign trade. Alexander Hamilton said that America was a Hercules in the cradle. we could be big, big, big stuff on the world stage.
If we had the right kind of institutions and governance, including a strong executive. The Anti-Federalists, they really preferred the notion that the Constitution should authorize, as the Articles had. A loose confederation of mostly independent states. that would govern themselves as local as possible. that would not sacrifice the interests Of the state for the sake of some larger national interest that often would be defined by an elite group made up of people like Hamilton and Madison and others.
They were decentralists. They were also disturbed that the Constitution makes no mention, does not begin. With an invocation of God, a request for God's providence to watch over the nation. as so many of the state constitutions did. And the Constitution didn't do that.
The preamble of the Constitution, which is very beautiful, it's probably the only part of the Constitution that's beautiful. does not mention the deity. The anti-federalists were Puzzled by this. They feared the concentration of power. They feared.
The loss of republicanism, the loss of self-rule, of the values associated with self-rule. They feared America turning into an empire. no less a figure than Patrick Henry, one of the great patriots of the Revolution. who gave the famous speech, Give me liberty or give me death No less a figure than Patrick Henry, who opposed, strongly opposed the Constitution. Because He said, it begins.
Not with we the states. But we the people. Why not we the States? What he feared was that America. A stronger, more unified America would become an empire.
And an empire is the antithesis of a republic. An empire is a nation state in which individuals are ruled over by an all-powerful central government that aggrandizes all of the power unto itself. and leaves the individual states and localities without the ability to govern themselves that had been their way of life, that had been the essence of the rights of Englishmen for which they rebelled. Maybe this was giving up everything that had been important about the revolution. These are different groups culturally to the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.
The Federalists were professionals, educated men, lawyers. Businessmen, people who are really good at what we today would call public relations. They were really good at mounting a campaign so that even in states where the resistance to the Constitution was strong. They were able to change public opinion, turn the tide, so that the ratifying conventions. which remember are distinct from the legislatures.
the ratifying conventions could be persuaded. to vote. four. The Constitution. Hmm.
A good example of this was the state of New York. A lot of loyalists in New York, a lot of loyalist sentiment in New York. which did not translate into ardent desire to see America become a nation among nations. The debates in New York were heated. often coarse and ad hominem.
But out of these debates in New York came 85 articles written. By Hamilton and Madison and John Jay of New York. These are called the Federalist Papers, but they were written as newspaper articles. Designed to sway public opinion in New York. And let me tell you, these are very high-order op-ed articles.
You wouldn't find things like this in the Washington Post or the New York Times or USA Today, today at all. And you've been listening to Professor Bill McClay of Hillsdale College tell the story of how the Constitution got made and actually how it almost didn't get made. There was serious opposition. As you were hearing from Professor McClay, these states had different geographical concerns, commercial concerns. They were almost entirely different countries and here they were being pushed together and nobody less than Patrick Henry.
Bring me liberty or bring me death.
Well, he opposed this idea of we the people. He wanted it to be we the states. He was afraid that we'd veer from a republic, a constitutional republic. to an empire. all of that central power.
would come to no good. And up in New York, There they were. The Brilliant Three The brilliant triumvirate of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, penning through newspaper articles, op-eds in a sense. The Federalist Papers making the argument. with a constitution.
And by the way, Bill McClay teaches at Hillsdale College, and all of our history stories are brought to us by the great folks at Hillsdale, where you can go to learn all the things that are good in life. And all the things that are beautiful in life. Go to Hillsdale.edu to sign up for their free and terrific online courses. When We Come Back, More of the Remarkable Story. Of Our Constitution, a part of the Story of Us, the Story of America series with Professor Bill McClay.
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Whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. building actual Physical machines.
Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience The culture of building hard things. that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point.
When it will mature, right? My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with content? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer. That is one that can run a very, very large, large problem.
To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, Visit ibm.com slash quantum. And we return to Our American Stories and our Story of America series with Dr. Bill McClay, author of Land of Hope. When we last left off, Bill McClay was telling us about why the Federalist Papers High-order op-eds written by Hamilton, Jay, and Madison, all supporters of ratifying the Constitution, came to be. Let's return to the story here again.
is Professor Bill McClay. They were published under a pen name, which was a common practice, a pen name often from classical history. One of the most distinguished anti-Federalist writers used the pen name of Brutus. You may remember from reading Shakespeare that Brutus was the opponent of Julius Caesar, who became the first emperor. That is the transformation of Rome from a republic to an empire.
The writer Brutus, in the American context, saw himself performing a similar role, resisting the transformation of the American Republic into an American empire. Uh Mm-hmm. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay used the pen name Publius, and I think most people would agree. These 85 articles, the Federalist Papers, as we call them, Constitute the best introduction to the thinking behind the framers of the Constitution. They start right off the bat saying some very important things.
Hamilton wrote Federalist No. 1, and we know now who the authors were. They weren't disclosed at the time. They were just all under the name Hooplis. Hamilton said this: It has been frequently remarked.
That it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question. whether societies of men are really capable or not. of establishing good government from reflection and choice. Or whether they're forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. Good government from reflection and choice, or is it just accident and force?
It determines. Thanks. Let me continue with Hamilton's prose and If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived. May with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made. And a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.
Wow, he is saying That The whole world. and in some ways the destiny. of humankind. Riding. on the way that this group of people and the North American strand of the British, what was formerly British North America, to decide.
It's depending on them. To decide whether it's possible to create a good government based on rationality, reflection, choice, knowledge of history, knowledge of human behavior, to craft it. Or are we forever dependent on the kind of collision of blind forces or just the eventualities of history? America is deciding this at this very moment. That's what Hamilton is saying.
It's really very powerful. And you know, it does recall for us the words of John Winthrop. at the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Winthrop didn't think he was establishing the United States of America. But there was this sense.
The colony, the plantation that he was establishing in Massachusetts Bay, was deciding something that would have an effect for the rest of the world. The rest of the world was looking or would be looking to it as an exemplar, the light of the world. The salt of the earth. That was what that colony was to be. And here, Hamilton's not, this is strictly secular, but it's doing the same thing.
It's saying that something could be brought, the dismal record of human history of failed regimes that would provide a new way, a new path, one that would be reliant upon the rational capabilities and the historical knowledge of those who were framing. that form of government. One of the essays that was written, Federalist Number Ten. would become a great contribution to the history of political thought. Yeah.
This was written by Madison, who was very, very systematic in his political thinking. And it had to do with factions. The problem of factions, and how could a Republican government, such as the one the Constitution was proposing, deal with the problem of faction? And now faction Is actually a word that it's an abstract word. It could stand for many things.
It could stand for a political party, a segment within a political party, an interest group, an ideological group, a regional group. The problem is how do you have a republican form of government when you have lots of factions? These guys knew their history and they knew that every republic in the past had suffered from and had to deal with the problem of faction. things breaking down. And one of the things that all the great philosophers, from Aristotle to Montesquieu, had said about Republican government is that it had to be small.
Because if it got too big, you couldn't have a high degree of localism, you couldn't have face-to-face dealings. In various other ways, the people would no longer participate in their own government. I mean, in an empire you have large bureaucracies, you have governors who are directed from central authority. You don't have the people governing themselves.
So the feeling was if you're going to have a republic, it's got to be small. And that's a problem for the Americans because they want to have a republic. It's written into the Constitution, this favoring of republicanism in the states, and any states that should be added would be Republican. But it was also going to be a big country right from the start. 13 states.
How could you maintain Republican government and not have things break down into factions?
So, with that background, let me read to you some of Madison's brilliant analysis.
Okay. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole. who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interests adverse to the rights of other citizens. or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one by removing its causes.
the other by controlling its effects. There are two methods of removing its causes. the one by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence, the other by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests. They could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it's worse than a disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.
Isn't that wonderful? Liberty is to faction what air is to fire. See, you wanna have liberty, you're gonna have faction. you're going to have conflict. Back to Madison.
But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential. to animal life. because it imparts the fire. It's destructive agency. As long as the reason of man continues fallible and he's at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
As long as we have both reason and self-love. We'll have different passions, so we have different reasoning. And you've been listening to Professor Bill McClay. Of Hillsdale College and author of Land of Hope tell the story of how the Constitution got made and the role that the Federalist Papers played in doing so. and his explanation, his exploration of Federalist Ten James Madison.
Well, the words speak for themselves. When we come back, More of Professor Bill McClay's Story of America series here on Our American Stories. All right, quick quiz for the hiring managers out there. What's worse, being understaffed or being poorly staffed?
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Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Glabwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new Director of Research, Jake M. Bata. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing.
At IBM Research, what we always do is answer: what is the future of computing? Whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes.
Building actual Physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience The culture of building hard things. that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology?
There will come a point. When it will mature, right? My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with content? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer.
That is one that can run a very, very large large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit ibm.com slash quantum. And we return to Our American Stories in our Story of America series with Bill McClay, author of Land of Hope. and the terrific Young Readers Edition. When we last left off, Professor McClay was reading James Madison's brilliant writing on factions from the Federalist Papers.
In his writing, Madison stated that we all have different faculties, different standings in society. And that might not be as bad as it seems. Let's continue with that reading. Here again. is Bill McClay.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results, and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties. That's very well put. Let me restate it though. And obviously you can't do this, but let's just say you could.
It's a thought experiment. Uh What he's saying is that even if you equalized everything. Right now, overnight, gave everybody the exact same background, the exact same economic standing, the exact same social skills, and then you start the race of life from there. almost immediately. you'd find that people had different faculties.
different skills. different ambitions. And the possession of these different skills would lead to different possessions of property. There are some people who can make money just by waking up in the morning. It seems it just comes so naturally to them.
Then there's the rest of us who can't rub two nickels together.
Some people are perfectly happy to do what's put in front of them, to do as their father did. If their father was a farmer, they're a farmer. And then there are others who are ambitious, who want to try to create different things. This will inevitably result in some people becoming richer, some people becoming poorer, and Divide the society into different interests and parties. There's always going to be inequality.
Madison wasn't finished. He later describes why a republic is a better way than a direct democracy to manage factions. Let me read what he says about it. A republic, by which I mean a government in which a scheme of representation takes place, promises the cure for which we're seeking. The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government.
in the latter to a small number of citizens elected by the rest. Secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of the country. over which the latter may be extended. That latter point Is what I think we are going to want to concentrate on. See you now.
The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it. The fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found at the same party. The smaller the number of individuals composing a majority, and the smaller the compass within which they are placed, the more easily will they concert and execute their plans. of oppression.
So a smaller society can be more oppressive. They can concert and execute their plans of oppression. More easily.
Okay. Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests. You make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens. Or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength and to act in unison with each other.
Now where he's getting at here? Yeah. In, for example, some of the republics of Italy, of Renaissance Italy. Florence. Verona.
Because you had a smaller sphere, the antagonisms were more intense. You've all read Romeo and Juliet. The Montagues and the Capulas. They're like the Hadfields and the McCoy's, the feuding mountaineers. But you bring in other families.
You bring in seven, eight, ten other families. Then it's not going to be all about the Montagues and Capulets or the Hatfields and the McCoy's. And that's exactly the principle that Madison is putting forward here. A larger republic, which encompasses more diverse interests, will be much more likely. To be able to fend off the tyranny of any one interest group.
Mm. If you think of a place like South Carolina, where there's this strong dependency on slave labor, if South Carolina was an independent country, there'd be no hope of ever dislodging that institution, since the majority of voters would either be slaveholders or would be in league with white slaveholders. You extend the sphere and include states Where there is no slavery. Then you change things. Yet, this works with all kinds of economic interests.
Not all of the country involves the mining of coal. Or the catching of codfish off the coast of New England.
So you see, it sets up conflict. Remember, the Constitution is all about conflict, but an extension of the sphere that Madison is describing is a way to ensure that no one faction is going to have dominance in perpetuity over all the others. It's a pluralistic system. It makes democracy more effective. makes self-rule more effective.
by preventing the tyranny of any one particular faction. He goes on to say Besides other impediments, it may be remarked that where there's a consciousness of unjust or dishonorable purposes, communication is always checked by distrust in proportion to the number whose concurrence is necessary. You can't get away with unjust or dishonorable purposes if a whole lot of other people are watching. The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular states. but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other states.
A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction in part of the Confederacy, but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it must secure the national councils against any danger from that source. A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, any other improper or wicked project. will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union. than a particular member of it, in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district than an entire state.
So, you get the idea that the more you divide things up. The less able any one faction is to take control of the whole. If you extend the sphere enough, there's always going to be a factor that says, wait a minute. Paper money is bad for this or that purpose. Wait a minute, equal division of property penalizes me, penalizes my efforts.
Wait a minute. Your religious convictions are different from mine. Get off my back. Uh So it's another way. That the Constitution slows the process of radical change.
And allows different ways of life, different ways of making a living. different ways of worshiping, different ways of regarding even the role of local government to subsist and flourish. That was the genius of Federalist Ten. And to do it, he had to go right in the face of the most venerable philosophers of both antiquity and modernity. I gave the example: Aristotle and Monescue, and there are others.
But he had to say, No, you're wrong. A propublic doesn't have to be small. Actually a republic needs to be big. It needs to be larger in order to balance liberty with order. In order to have both the advantages of a national government, but also the advantages of local idiosyncrasies, local customs, local ways of life.
So, this document that Madison, Hamilton, and Jay. We're defending Was really path-breaking in the same way that, as we saw in Federalist One, the John Winthrop's document. that's been passed down to us was path-breaking.
Now Hamilton Madison Jay, we're not creating a Zion in the wilderness. They were not. after the kind of to be an example for the purification of the church in the world. That was what Winthrop had in mind. Not with these secular Then dead.
They were after a structure of secular government. A charter of fundamental law that would support the ideals of liberty and self-rule, self-governance. And they were using History to protect against the poisons of history. History was the antidote to history. They were drawing on the lessons of the past.
To foster a different way, a different path, to keep the virtues of republicanism. Of self-rule, but to do it within the context of a stable, orderly regime that could last. That's what the Constitution attempted to do. And a special thanks to Hillsdale College for sponsoring all of our history stories. Go to Hillsdale.edu to sign up for their free and terrific courses.
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