AP GOVERNMENT REQUIRED CASES DOCUMENTS 1st

"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

“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

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

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #51

• Federalist #70

• Federalist #78

“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

"Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. "

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #51

• Federalist #70

• Federalist #78

"No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Control of the Congress. "

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• U.S. Constitution

• Federalist #51

"Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled."

• Articles of Confederation

• U.S. Constitution

• Federalist #51

• Letter from Birmingham Jail

"Now, in a large extended country, it is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity, to declare the minds of the people, without having it so numerous and unwieldly, as to be subject in great measure to the inconveniency of a democratic government."

• Articles of Confederation

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #51

• Brutus #1