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  2. Federalist No. 45 - Wikipedia

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    Federalist No. 45, titled "The Alleged Danger From the Powers of the Union to the State Governments Considered", is the 45th out of 85 essays of the Federalist Papers series. No. 45 was written by James Madison , but was first published by The New York Packet under the pseudonym Publius, on January 26, 1788.

  3. Federalist No. 44 - Wikipedia

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    Federalist No. 44 is an essay by James Madison, the forty-fourth of The Federalist Papers.It was first published by The New York Packet on January 25, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published.

  4. Argument from authority - Wikipedia

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    An argument from authority [a] is a form of argument in which the opinion of an authority figure (or figures) is used as evidence to support an argument. [ 1 ] The argument from authority is a logical fallacy , [ 2 ] and obtaining knowledge in this way is fallible.

  5. Federalist No. 9 - Wikipedia

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    Federalist No. 9 less original argumentation, instead analyzing the arguments of the anti-federalists and Montesquieu. [3]: 127 Montesquieu was the most referenced of any political philosopher in The Federalist Papers, but Federalist No. 9 referenced his ideas to refute them, rejecting the argument from authority.

  6. Unitary executive theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory is largely based on the Vesting Clause, which singularly [weasel words] grants [11] the president with the "executive Power" and places the office atop the executive branch. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Critics debate over how much power and discretion the vesting clause gives a president, [ 14 ] [ 15 ] and emphasize other countermeasures in the ...

  7. In Defense of Anarchism - Wikipedia

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    In Defense of Anarchism is a 1970 book by the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, in which the author defends philosophical anarchism.He argues that individual autonomy and state authority are mutually exclusive and that, as individual autonomy is inalienable, the moral legitimacy of the state collapses.

  8. Independent state legislature theory - Wikipedia

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    The independent state legislature theory or independent state legislature doctrine (ISL) is a judicially rejected legal theory that posits that the Constitution of the United States delegates authority to regulate federal elections within a state to that state's elected lawmakers without any checks and balances from state constitutions, state courts, governors, ballot initiatives, or other ...

  9. Federalist No. 48 - Wikipedia

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    The argument of No. 48 is that, in order to practically maintain the branches as "separate and distinct", they must have "a constitutional control" over each other. The paper begins by asserting that "power is of an encroaching nature", i.e. those with power will attempt to control everything they can.