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  2. Federalist No. 51 - Wikipedia

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    Federalist No. 51, titled: "The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments", is an essay written by James Madison or Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-first of The Federalist Papers. [1]

  3. The Federalist Papers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of pseudonyms used in the American Constitutional debates

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    Anti-Federalist. [7] An Assemblyman William Findley: Brutus: Robert Yates, [2] Melancton Smith Anti-Federalist. After Marcus Junius Brutus, a Roman republican involved in the assassination of Caesar. Published sixteen essays in the New York Journal between October 1787 and April 1788. Candidus Benjamin Austin [2] Cato George Clinton [2] Anti ...

  5. Thomas Paine - Wikipedia

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    De re publica (54–51 BC) Discourses on Livy (1531) The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) Discourses Concerning Government (1698) The Spirit of Law (1748) Discourse on Inequality (1755) The Social Contract (1762) The Federalist Papers (1787–1788) Rights of Man (1791) Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical ...

  6. Separation of powers under the United States Constitution

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    The Constitution does not explicitly indicate the pre-eminence of any particular branch of government. However, James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, regarding the ability of each branch to defend itself from actions by the others, that "it is not possible to give to each department an equal power of self-defense. In republican government, the ...

  7. Anti-Federalist Papers - Wikipedia

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    The Anti-Federalist papers were written over a number of years and by a variety of authors who utilized pen names to remain anonymous, and debates over authorship continue to this day. Unlike the authors of The Federalist Papers , a group of three men working closely together, the authors of the Anti-Federalist papers were not engaged in an ...

  8. Federalist No. 10 - Wikipedia

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    Federalist No. 10 is an essay written by James Madison as the tenth of The Federalist Papers, ... No. 10 (along with Federalist No. 51, also by Madison) ...

  9. Federalist No. 48 - Wikipedia

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    Federalist No. 48 is an essay by James Madison, the forty-eighth of the Federalist Papers. It was first published by The New York Packet on February 1, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. This paper builds on Federalist No. 47. In that essay Madison argued for separation of powers ...