The difficulty that Madison poses comes from the idea of men governing men. Giving other men the power to govern over us can cause difficult problems and we become subject to them, such as what happened with Hitler that we talked about in class.
I really like in the Federalist #51 when he says “It is equally evident, that the members of each department should be as little dependent as possible on those of the others.” This is showing that the separation of powers was a way to try and fix the problem of men governing men. In the 10th amendment they separate the powers between the 3 different branches and the separation of national and state government.
In Federalist #51 he says “A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.” With those auxiliary precautions he talks about the constitution being a written law to limit the power of the government. The election process and popular sovereignty also limits the power with the idea that we get to choose who is governing us.
I liked how you quoted federalist 51 in your essay. I feel like you could of added a lot more detain and added the precautions of federalist 51. I thought it was very to the point but the questions that were asked of us to write about weren't fully answered.
ReplyDeleteI feel that you have the main idea right, but you could have expanded and gave a lot more detail in you essay. You just briefly answered the questions. I think that you could have given more though into it. It was good that you quoted Federalist 51 though.
ReplyDeleteI really liked that quotes you put into your essay. You didn't cover anything about the checks and balances though. There could have put more detail into it but other than that you did really good job!
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