Guidelines:
3-5 pages
12 pt. Times New Roman or 11 pt. Calibri
Double spaced
.doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt formats. If you try to share on Google drive and the paper is inaccessible to me at the time of grading, I will give you a 0.
Cite your quotations using (F XX) for the Federalist Paper, where the XX is the number of the article.
You may use MLA, APA, Chicago or Turabian for your Works Cited page.
You must use at least two of the secondary source documents, as well as both primary sources.
Primary Sources
1787 Federalist No 10.pdf Download 1787 Federalist No 10.pdf
1788 Federalist No 51.pdf Download 1788 Federalist No 51.pdf
Secondary Sources
Judicial Supremacy or Judicial Defense.pdf Download Judicial Supremacy or Judicial Defense.pdf
Separation of Powers and Political Accountability.pdf Download Separation of Powers and Political Accountability.pdf
Separation of Powers and the Madisonian Model.pdf Download Separation of Powers and the Madisonian Model.pdf
The Separation of Powers.pdf Download The Separation of Powers.pdf
Virtue and Political Jealousy.pdf Download Virtue and Political Jealousy.pdf
Prompt:
In Federalist 10 and Federalist 51, James Madison provides warnings and solutions to two major problems facing the new nation: factionalism and separation of powers. Madison believed that the new government could possibly move towards tyranny, but through the protections of the Constitution, the American people would be protected.
Your task is to critically evaluation Madison’s arguments in both Federalist 10 and Federalist 51, using only the documents provided (Federalist 10 and 51), the secondary academic articles available here, your textbook, and your notes. Your critical evaluation should, in essay form, address the following issues:
1. What threat do political factions pose to a republic?
2. How can a government deal with those threats, without harming liberty?
3. In what ways does the Constitution protect against tyranny?
4. What makes Madison so sure that the separation of powers will work to prevent one branch of the government from becoming too powerful?
5. What parts of Madison’s argument are the most persuasive? Where is his argument the weakest?
6. Do you agree with Madison’s arguments? Why or why not?
Be sure to base all of your evidence in the documents.
