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== FEDERALIST NO. 51 == | |||
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'''''<big>FEDERALIST NO. 51''''' | |||
'''''<big>The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments</big>''''' | '''''<big>The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments</big>''''' | ||
'''From the ''New York Packet'', Friday, February 8, 1788''' | '''From the ''New York Packet'', Friday, February 8, 1788''' | ||
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Authorship | === Authorship === | ||
* generally attributed to James Madison | |||
===Summary of purpose=== | |||
""Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." | * Madison discusses the purposes and benefits of divided government and a system of "checks and balances" | ||
** = each divided portion of the government can "check" the other and 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 both through divided and balanced government | |||
*** making it difficult for any single faction to control all of them | |||
*** = ""Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." | |||
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'''''<big>To the People of the State of New York:</big>''''' | |||
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New York State was the primary battleground for the arguments over adopting the proposed Constitution. | New York State was the primary battleground for the arguments over adopting the proposed Constitution. | ||