FEDERALIST 51

SUMMARY

MADISONS VEIWS

• Madison believes in limited government, where the government has as much
• power the people delegate them to have.
• Government exists to protect the rights given to the people with Constitution with their limited power.

THESIS

• The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate
• the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government as that its several
• constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper
• Places

"IF MEN WERE ANGELS, NO GOV WOULD BE NECESSARY"

HOW THE CONSTITUTION PROTECTS BALENCE OF POWER

LEGESLATIVE BRANCH

• According to Madison, The legislative branch is the strongest because it predominates in a republican
• government. The remedy is to divide the legislative into many different branches, "by different modes of
• election and different principles of action."

RIGHTS OF THE MINORITY

• 1. Creating a will in the community independent of the majority--that is, of the
• society itself
• 2. Comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust
• combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable (exemplified in the federal republic)
• (too broken down to form a majority)