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Question 1

Madison, federalist 47:

Answer 1

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands may be pronounced the very definition of tyranny”

• checks and balances
• Madison expected that in a government with carefully limited executive powers the legislative branch was most to be feared

Question 2

Federalist 23 Hamilton:

Answer 2

• points to government as a whole to have all the power to provide national defense, not president specifically
• reject system created by articles of confederation because it did not provide enough power to government

Question 3

The framers decided locked federative powers between the president and congress

Answer 3

To try and ensure the power would not be concentrated in any one branch