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Alexander Hamilton successfully proposed that the states be invited to send delegates to Philadelphia to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union. Locke feels that this system of government is lacking in that the ruler has all control, and may not be stopped in abuses of power. If one man kills another man's sheep, then the people have the right to kill one of his sheep, without commiting a crime. For this reason, they developed a system of checks and balances to prevent any one of the three separate branches of the government from becoming dominant. Hamilton believed in a loose interpretation of the Constitution so that the central government could become more powerful. Locke's view of the state of nature is a state of being where all men are created equal, and all men have the right to protect their life, freedom, and possesions. Locke's philosophical beliefs and theories are the basis of numerous other philosophers, and play an important role in the development of the American judicial system. Hobbes says that "man is evil, so it is better to give up power to one individual, so that the evil in the society is limited"(chap 1 notes). Both the national government and the state government are divided into three different branches, executive, legislative, and judicial. They saw the conditions in which England existed under the monarchy, and decided to construct a different kind of government in which no one faction could hold too much power. Each state is entitled to have as many Electors representing them as they have Senators & Congressmen representing them in Congress. The people, every 4 years through a system of 'First Past the Post' system whereby the top number of vote receivers fill the number of positions offered, elect these Electors. Some examples of these are the pursuit of happiness and the system of checks and balances throughout the branches of government, known as the separation of powers. If a person commits a crime, the people have a right to punish him. The Federal System began when the framers of the Constitution had a vision for a new nation, and a new government to regulate it.