History Question – Description
In an essay no shorter than 750 and no longer than 1,000 words answer the prompt below. Be sure to answer the question posed fully. You should have a separate, non-numbered cover/title page that includes course and assignment information as well as your name and the word count for the essay (not counting the title page or the bibliography). The title page should be formatted as a proper title page. The first page of text should be numbered 1. Please use 12 point, Times New Romans font and 1-inch margins all around. The main body of text should be double-spaced. You should have a separate bibliography page for any sources cited. Be sure to provide citations to format citations properly (Chicago Manual is preferred). The essay must be submitted on Canvas (not by email) as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf.
You must provide short, salient, direct quotations with properly formatted citations referencing the specific passage being quoted. But the total percentage of quotation in the Essay must not exceed 20% of the main text. Any amount of quoted words from any source must be in quotation marks. Provide citations whenever referencing particular passages in a source. For the most part, references should be to primary or secondary sources assigned for class. To the extent that other sources are used, they should be scholarly sources. Do not use general online sources such as Wikipedia, History.com, SparkNotes, etc. Plagiarism will result in a zero on the assignment. Use of AI like Chatgpt is considered cheating and will result in a zero for the assignment.
Before composing your essay be sure to read the document attached below that provides guidelines for composing an argument for a thesis.
The Prompt:
What is Madison’s solution for preventing government from tyrannizing society? Your answer should discuss the arguments of Federalist nos. 47-49 and 51. Include in your discussion Madison’s argument as to why the separation of powers is necessary, what solutions for maintaining the separation of powers are either bad solutions (like the total separation of powers) or insufficient / inadequate by themselves (such as written constitutions, regular constitutional conventions, or electoral accountability), and the solution for which he ultimately argues in Federalist no. 51. Be sure to get into the details both with respect to the constitutional means and personal motives Madison utilizes to maintain the separation of powers. Why does Madison rely on ambition and person interest when it comes to the motives of those who administer each department / branch of the government? Relatedly, what does Madison mean in Federalist 51 by “the defect of the better motives”? How does using ambition to check ambition and self-interest to check self-interest remedy this defect?
The link to the Federalist is below:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/fed.asp
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