The founding brothers :the revolutionary generation?

Question

In conflict with Republicans and Federalists described by Ellis throughout the book, readers can understand the origins of party factionalism that is a strong factor in American politics to this day. If, as Ellis writes, "the dominant intellectual legacy of the Rvoolution, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, stigmatized all concentrated political power and even...depicted any energetic expression of governmental authority as an alien force that all responsible citizens ought to repudiate and , if possible overthrow" [pg 11], what compromises were made in order to bring a sable national government to fruition? Does the apparent contradiction between Republican and Federalist principles still create instability in the American system?

Answer 1

One compromise was the creation of the bicameral legislature (i.e., the Senate and the House) to balance the interests of the small and large states.

Answer 2

I have never read Ellis and know nothing of him. If he asserts that Federalists were wrong then it sounds to me like he was a tory and WANTED to be governed and ruled by an absolute monarchy.

Pardon me for saying, but I thought this was the reason for the whole revolutuon to begin with. If Ellis was there or at least a contemporary, then something may be lost in the language of the times.

I am no history major and not even a scholar of the same but I thought the idea of government was pretty reduced to protection of it's citizens and letting them "control" themselves within reason and law. ( decided by them)