... central government, they realized its limitations. In his 1788 essay "The Federalist, No. LI, delegate to the Constitutional Convention and former delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from Virginia James Madison argued the importance of establishing a system of checks and balances among the U.S. government's different branches. Madison explicated that maintaining autonomy and preventing dependence between the government's three different branches promoted checks and balances when he wrote ... government had no authority. He also fought against Alexander Hamilton's support for a...

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... small rural communities. It was John Adams and other fellow Bostonians who called for the citizens to rise up and defend their liberty. To rally up this idea they took a couple notes from Algernon Sidney; Sidney stated that, "In a popular or mixed government the body of the people is the publick defense, and every man is arm'd and disciplin'd." What Sidney basically mentions ... in the quote is that we as American citizens are to be in charge of defending and ... themselves rather than have to wait for a long time for the federal army to arrive.The debate between the Federalist and Non...

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