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-== '''FEDERALIST NO. 51''' ==
+FEDERALIST NO. 51
+''The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments''
+From the ''New York Packet'', Friday, February 8, 1788
+By Publius
-=== ''The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments'' ===
+Author: James Madison (possibly Alexander Hamilton, but generally accepted as written by Madison)
-=== From the ''New York Packet'', Friday, February 8, 1788. ===
-=== By Publius ===
-=== Author: James Madison (possibly Alexander Hamilton, but generally accepted as written by Madison) ===
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 Here, Madison (most likely) discusses the purposes and benefits of divided government and a system of "checks and balances," whereby each divided portion of the government can "check" the other, as well as to exercise "balanced" powers. Madison also addresses the paradox that government is necessary to inhibit human ambition ("If men were angels, no government would be necessary") while at the same time propelling it for one "faction" at the expense of others. The solution,, which Madison first proposed in Federalist No. 10, is not to prohibit faction and ambition but to limit it through divided and balanced government that are difficult for any single faction to control, eloquently expressed as, ""Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."