The Federalist is a collection of eighty-five essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay between October 1787 and May 1788. They were written to convince New York State to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Each essay was signed “Publius” even though they were written by three different authors, Hamilton wrote fifty-two, Madison’s wrote twenty-eight, and Jay wrote five of the essays. These articles were aimed to modifying public opinion in favor of ratifying the new Constitution. One of the most famous of the Federalist Papers, Number Fifty One, explains the Constitutional the fundamental truth of checks and balances.
Federalist 51 was a written by James Madison; it was the fifty first paper in a series of eighty five Federalist Papers written by Madison, Jay, and Hamilton. In Federalist 51, Madison explains how the segregation of powers between the branches of government will check the power of each branch of government. Each branch of government will be accountable of the other branches of government. He argues that the branches must be absolutely separate for the separation of government powers to work.
In Madison’s writing of the Federalist 51, he tries to explain how the
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The citizens should elect the members of all three branches of the governments, the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary. Even though citizens elect them, there needs to be deviation to this rule since the judges need to have certain educational, social, and moral quality and standard that the common public may or may not understand. To assure that such independence, no one branch should have more power than the other in selecting members of the other two