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Thursday, February 21, 2008

AP Government -Federalist Papers-

1. What is essential to the "preservation of liberty?" How should this "be so constituted?"
"separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of government" So each department should have a will of its own. Members of each should should have as little to do with agencies of others.

2. Analyze the following: "A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions."
The government needs to depend on the the people, but as the Articles taught there are steps that need to be taken by the central government to still protect the people and the itself.

3. In a republican government, which branch is the strongest? Identify three ways of "remedying this inconveniency."
The legislative government is the most powerful in a republican government. Three ways of fixing this is to divide the legislative into three branches, keep them little connected, and guard against encroachment

4. List two ways in which the federal system of the U.S. "places that sytem in a very interesting point of view," i.e., protects against tyranny:
The first is the double security coming from the the divided power of the people.
The second is protecting people from oppression from a ruler and from each other

5. What does Madison mean when he says, "The great security against a gradual concentration of several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department, the necessary constitutional means, and personal motives, to resist encroachments of the others"?
Departments are given the power to resist against other departments to keep themselves from being overwhelmed and controlled by other departments

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