Quiz 3 Flashcards
A _______ is a number of citizens who are united and actuated by some common interest adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the interests of the community.
Faction
The two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction are:
a. Removing its causes.
b. Controlling its effects.
The two methods of removing the causes of factions are:
a. Destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence.
b. Giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
The most common and durable source of factions has been:
The various and unequal distribution of property.
The causes of faction cannot be removed; relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its ________
Effects
The ________ must be rendered unable to carry into effect schemes of oppression.
Majority
Public views are _______ and ________ by passing them through a chosen body of citizens.
Represented, regulated.
Does Madison prefer a republic or a democracy? Does he want it large or small?
Republic. Large.
The interior ______ of the government must be so contrived that it’s parts may be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.
structure
Should each department have as little or as much agency as possible in the appointment of members of the other departments?
As little
The great security against a ________________ of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department in the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist the encroachments of others.
gradual concentration
___________ must be made to counteract ambition.
Ambition
The greatest reflection on human nature is __________
Government itself.
You must first enable government to control the governed and then oblige it to control ___________
itself
The primary control on government is ______________
A dependence on the people.
In republican government, the __________ authority predominates.
legislative
The remedy for this is to ______________
divide them into separate, unrelated branches
In America, power is first divided between _________ and then subdivided among distinct and separate departments.
two distinct governments
If a _________ be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.
majority
The security for civil & religious rights is in the ________ of interests of sects.
p169
______________ is the end (purpose) of government and civil society.
Justice
All United States judges hold their offices during ___________
Good behavior
Such a term is an excellent barrier to the encroachments and oppressions of _________________
The representative body.
Why will the judiciary be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution?
It will be the least of capacity to annoy or injure [the rights]