Talk:Federalist No. 51

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Primarily discusses the checks and balances of the branches. However, it does not say what the balances are, only what they aren't. This has created some confusion on whether the people should determine what the checks should be or if it should lie within the branches.It has great details in how one government must protect the corruption is the root of power

Madison did not need to include the checks and balances in Federalist 51, because they were already stated in the Constitution. The Federalist Papers were not written primarily to inform the people, per say, of what was contained in the Constitution, but to rather use philosophical and logical arguments to prove that the system proposed by the Constitution, was, in fact, one of the best. --5ptcalvinist 03:54, 10 October 2006 (UTC)