Study Guide Notes

What is the principle idea of Brutus 1?

Centralized authority will become corrupt

Brutus believes ___________ is the most important government power

Taxation

Brutus believes that the __________ clause invalidates all limits on the federal government

Necessary and proper

Brutus’s general opinion of those given complete power is…

They are ambitious and corrupt

Brutus proposes the impact of a large republic is?

A tyrannical centralized authority

Who wrote Fed 51?

James Madison

In Fed 51, which is most important government body?

Legislative

James Madison proposes the effect of a large republic is…

Mitigating individual selfish interests

The Declaration of Independence is the _________ of the republic

Philosophy

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration for the benefit of the King and the ________

People

Rights endowed to all men in the Declaration of Independence

Natural rights

Jefferson draws on what ideas in the Declaration of Independence

Enlightenment ideas