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Federalist No. 51 With Complete Solutions 100% 2024/2025
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Federalist No. 51 With CompleteSolutions 100% 2024/2025
Purpose: Answer: One of the most famous of the Federalist Papers, No. 51 addresses means by
which appropriate checks and balances can be created in government and also advocates a separation
of powers within the national government.
What question does Madison ask in his first? How does he answer it? Answer: "What method
should we use, then, to maintain the necessary partition of power between the difference branches as
laid down in the Constitution?"
= All outside provisions are inadequate, must have 3 branches
Madison lists three ways to protect the "separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of
government". What are those? Answer: Each branch has its own abilities in government. Each
branch should not be able to appoint members of other branches.
Three ways that the different powers of government are kept separate and distinct: Answer: 1.
When appointing judiciary members, they must meet qualifications
2. All members of each branch must be appointed by the people
In what is "government itself the greatest of all reflections on human nature"? Answer: Madison is
recognizing that humans are capable of great things but are just as easily susceptible
What does Madison mean when he refers to "the policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the
defect of better motives"? Answer: It means the policy of correcting wrong and opposite interests
or checks and balances
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