Federalist 51 Reading Guide – Read the directions please.
Directions: Read Federalist 51. Type the answers to the following questions below (please put the questions and answers in different fonts or colors to distinguish between them). You may use direct quotes to support your response, however, your responses may not use quotes entirely (don’t try to paraphrase, rather explain). Please skip lines between each answer. This document can be found in your text (A26-A29) or online at: http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fed51.htm
Paragraph 1:
1. What is Madison’s general purpose in writing Federalist 51?
Paragraph 2.
2. According to the document, what does separation of power require?
3. Why does Madison think the judiciary should deviate from the appointment process of the other branches?
Paragraph 4.
4. What is the security against one department growing too powerful?
5. What does Madison describe as the greatest problem inherent in a government of men? (Why does he write it is necessary for “ambition to counteract ambition”?)
6. What is Madison’s famous quote regarding the nature of man which illustrates man’s ambitions and the need for controls?
Paragraph 5.
7. What are the three “auxiliary precautions” Madison alludes to in the previous paragraph?
Paragraph 6.
8. Who will dominate a republican government?
9. What is the remedy for this?
10. Would an absolute veto remedy this? Explain.
Paragraph 7-8. Read but no questions.
Paragraph 9-10.
11. What are two considerations for the federal system of America?
A)
B)
12. What protections does the “extended” size of the United States offer?
Paragraph 10. Read p. 32-33 in your text (short summary of Federalist 10).
Read but no questions, however, consider this argument when we read Fed. 10