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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Federalist Paper #51



The purpose of the 51st Federalist Paper was to explain the election of officials under a new constitution. It explains the election of officials as being by the people. The only time in which government officials will elect officials will be in deciding the members of the judicial branch. The reasoning for this is that Judicial members must be extremely well qualified and would be best chosen by their peers in government. The branches of government will have checks on each other but the branch with the most power is the legislative branch. Therefore it is necessary to split this branch into two groups to more equally divide the power within it.
(pictured is James Madison, author of Federalist Paper 51)

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