Gerrymandering

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How does gerrymandering impact the Constitution as designed by James Madison. Gerrymandering is similar to what James Madison ideas were back in his own time that he was fighting for. He was often overlooked and not listened to. Once he teamed up with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, everyone started to listen to him. Eventually he became president after Thomas Jefferson and was later named the “Father of the Constitution.”
Madison was the youngest delegate at the age of 29. Although his many rejections he received for his ideas, he never gave up for his views. He was not a strong speaker, but he always fought for a strong government. Madison had three ideas to prevent giving to much power to anybody. They were limiting majority control, separating powers and creating checks and balances.
Madison knew that a minority was relatively easy to control, but on the other hand a majority was hard the control. So Madison wanted to break up the power of the majority so they would not control everything. He believed that government officials should be elected by a minority, thus easier to control the outcome. This would eliminate the power of the people in elections.
Madison also wanted to split the government up into three different branches: Executive, Judicial and Legislature. The executive branch consisted of the president’s power. The legislature branch consisted of Congress and Judicial was the court system. This way no branch would have more power than another
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would and also that no branch could pass anything unconstitutional. Also with this system no branch could control another branch.
The idea of creating a checks and balances system was novel also. With this in place it made sure that each branch how equal power. This also gave all the branches the power to question anything another branch proposed.
Although Madison had good ideas he was often overlooked until he teamed up with Alexander H...