AP Government 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

“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

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

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #51

• Federalist #70

• Federalist #78

"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

"How does one determine whether a law is just or

unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares

with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust

law is a code that is out of harmony with the

moral law... An unjust law is a human law that is not

rooted in eternal law and natural law."

• Declaration of Independence

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #78

• Letter from Birmingham Jail

"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