Author Question: In The Federalist Papers, Madison a. argues in favor of checks and balances but rejects the ... (Read 113 times)

fbq8i · **on:** Aug 4, 2018

In The Federalist Papers, Madison

a. argues in favor of checks and balances but rejects the concept of separation of powers.
b. argues in favor of both checks and balances and separation of powers.
c. supports the arguments of Machiavelli's The Prince on the matter of state power.
d. Both A and C are true.

Question 2

Over the centuries, as philosophers have debated whether states should be organized to maximize state power or organized to restrain state power,

a. James Madison argued that states should restrain state power.
b. Machiavelli, in The Prince, created the concept of separation of powers and suggested that states should minimize state power.
c. John Stuart Mill argued that states should maximize state power in order to minimize individualism, insofar as individualism was a dangerous force that would culminate in lawlessness and immorality.
d. Aristotle argued that only oligarchies were proper governments because all other types of government possessed too much power over citizens.