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Federalist No. 51 addresses the separation of powers, the federal structure of government and the maintenance of checks and balances by "opposite and rival interests" within the national government. One of Federalist No. 51's most important ideas, an explanation of checks and balances, is the often-quoted phrase, "Ambition must be made to ...
The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the collective pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. The collection was commonly known as The Federalist until the name The Federalist Papers emerged in the ...
Anti-Federalist Federalist Need for stronger Union John DeWitt No. I and II: Federalist No. 1–6: Bill of Rights John DeWitt No. II: James Wilson, 10/6/87 Federalist No. 84: Nature and powers of the Union Patrick Henry, 6/5/88: Federalist No. 1, 14, 15: Responsibility and checks in self-government Centinel No. 1: Federalist No. 10, 51
Federalist No. 50 is the fiftieth essay of The Federalist Papers. The authorship of the work is disputed between James Madison and Alexander Hamilton . It was first published in The New York Packet on February 5, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius , the name under which all The Federalist papers were published.
Federalist No. 52, an essay by James Madison or Alexander Hamilton [fn 1], is the fifty-second essay out of eighty-five making up The Federalist Papers, a collection of essays written during the Constitution's ratification process, most of them written either by Hamilton or Madison.
Madison, as written in Federalist No. 10, had decided why factions cannot be controlled by pure democracy: . A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.
While the Federalist movement of the 1780s and the Federalist Party were distinct entities, they were related in more than just a common name. The Jeffersonian or Democratic-Republican Party , the opposition to the Federalist Party, emphasized the fear that a strong national government was a threat to the liberties of the people.
The Federalist Papers were not written primarily to inform the people, per say, of what was contained in the Constitution, but to rather use philosophical and logical arguments to prove that the system proposed by the Constitution, was, in fact, one of the best. --5ptcalvinist 03:54, 10 October 2006 (UTC)