AP US Government Required Documents

"By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community"

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #51

• Federalist #70

• Federalist #78

“But if, on the other hand, this form of government contains principles that will lead to the subversion of liberty—if it tends to establish a despotism, or, what is worse, a tyrannic aristocracy; then, if you adopt it, this only remaining assylum for liberty will be shut up, and posterity will execrate your memory.”

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Brutus #1

• Federalist #10

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary”

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #51

• Federalist #70

• Federalist #78

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government”

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• U.S. Constitution

• Letter from Birmingham Jail

“In republican government the legislative authority, necessarily, predominates. The remedy for this invonvenience is, to divide the legislative into different branches.”

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #51

• Federalist #70

• Federalist #78

“Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government."

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #51

• Federalist #70

• Federalist #78

“The different governments will control each other; at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.”

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Brutus #1

• Federalist #51

“In a republic of such vast extent as the United-States, the legislature cannot attend to the various concerns and wants of its different parts. It cannot be sufficiently numerous to be acquainted with the local condition and wants of the different districts, and if it could, it is impossible it should have sufficient time to attend to and provide for all the variety of cases of this nature, that would be continually arising.”

• Articles of Confederation

• Brutus #1

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #51

"We know through painful experience that

freedom is never voluntarily given by the

oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

• Declaration of Independence

• Brutus #1

• Federalist #10

• Letter from Birmingham Jail

"That, to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of

Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish

it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its

Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Brutus #1

• Letter from Birmingham Jail