AP US Government Required Documents

“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

"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

"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

"The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. "

• 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

“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

"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

"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed

forever. The yearning for freedom eventually

manifests itself..."

• Declaration of Independence

• Brutus #1

• Federalist #51

• Letter from Birmingham jail

"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

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

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #51

• Federalist #70

• Federalist #78