The Federalist Papers

What is one of the obstacles that the new Constitution will have to encounter?

• Resistance from a certain class of men who hold power under the State establishments

• Resistance from a certain class of men who hope to aggrandize themselves

• Resistance from a certain class of men who want to divide the empire into several partial confederacies

• Resistance from a certain class of men who want to strengthen the government

What is the main advantage of a well-constructed Union?

• To break and control the violence of faction

• To remove the causes of faction

• To control the effects of faction

• To ensure the security of liberty

What is the effect of liberty on faction?

• It nourishes faction and leads to the destruction of government

• It extinguishes faction and leads to the preservation of government

• It has no effect on faction

• It depends on the specific circumstances

What is the first object of government?

• To protect the rights of property

• To control the effects of faction

• To ensure the security of liberty

• To divide the legislature into different branches

What is the difference between a democracy and a republic?

• The size of the government and the number of citizens

• The type of representation and the extent of the country

• The power of the government and the rights of the people

• The interests and parties within the society

What is the remedy for the inconveniency of the legislative authority predominating in a republican government?

• To divide the legislature into different branches

• To fortify the executive with an absolute negative on the legislature

• To guard against dangerous encroachments by further precautions

• To control the abuses of government through bills of rights

Why are bills of rights unnecessary and even dangerous in the proposed Constitution?

• They contain exceptions to powers not granted and can be used to claim more than were granted

• They restrict the liberty of the press without the power to impose restrictions

• They are stipulations between kings and their subjects, not applicable to constitutions founded upon the power of the people

• They are redundant as the Constitution itself serves as a bill of rights

What is the basis of political happiness for the citizens of America?

• Union

• Radical alterations

• New and extensive powers granted to the national head

• Different organization of the federal government

What is the main difficulty in framing a government to be administered by men over men?

• Enabling the government to control the governed

• Obliging the government to control itself

• Dividing the powers of government into separate departments

• Ensuring the preservation of liberty

What is the main security against a gradual concentration of powers in the same department?

• Giving each department a will of its own

• Dividing the government into distinct and separate departments

• Enabling the government to control the governed

• Obliging the government to control itself