Federalist 51

what is essential to the preservation of liberty?

seperate and distinct exercise of the different powers of government

members of each agency should have as ___ in the appointment of the members of the others

little aency as possible

members of each departmnet should be as little __ as possible on those of the others

dependent

_ must be made to counteract (blank)

ambition

if men were angels, _

no government would be necessary

if angels were to govern men,

neither external nor internal controls would be necessary

greatest difficulty —> government needs to control

the governed and itself

primary control of the gov

dependence on the people

_ of every individual may be a sentinel over the (blank)

private interest, public rights

how is the legislature “divided up”

different modes of election and different principles of action

weakness of the executive may require that it should

be fortified

not possible to give each department an equal power of

self-defense

double securiy in america (single/compund republic)

different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself

if a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be

insecure

society will be broken into so many parts, there…

will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority.

in a free government the security for _ must be the same as that for (blank)

civil rights, religious rights

anarchy may as truly be said to reign

as in a state of nature where the weaker individual is not secured against violence of the stronger