The Federalist No. 51.¶
Madison, J. (1788). The Federalist No. 51.: The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments. The Federalist Papers.
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Primes¶
- Checks and Balances
- As Madison (1788) argued in Federalist No. 51, "ambition must be made to counteract ambition"—a structural design where decision rights are distributed asymmetrically so that critical functions require coalition formation or explicit approval from bodies with competing interests.
This sourceFoundational essay establishing "ambition must be made to counteract ambition" as the structural rationale for distributing power across mutually checking branches.
- As Madison (1788) argued in Federalist No. 51, "ambition must be made to counteract ambition"—a structural design where decision rights are distributed asymmetrically so that critical functions require coalition formation or explicit approval from bodies with competing interests.
- Credible Commitment
- Constitutional design. Separation of powers, judicial review, supermajority rules, and entrenched rights constrain future political majorities, with "ambition counteracting ambition" being an explicit credibility-engineering argument.
This sourceArgues that constitutional structure must make 'ambition counteract ambition,' constraining future majorities — an explicit credibility-engineering argument for separation of powers.
- Constitutional design. Separation of powers, judicial review, supermajority rules, and entrenched rights constrain future political majorities, with "ambition counteracting ambition" being an explicit credibility-engineering argument.
- Governance
- Political science & public administration: Government structure (separation of powers, federalism, unitarism), legislative bodies (parliaments, congresses, councils), regulatory agencies (licensing, standard-setting, enforcement), constitutional law, administrative procedure—a domain whose architectural logic Madison (1788) sets out in Federalist 51's account of how "ambition must be made to counteract ambition" through institutional checks.
This sourceFoundational articulation of separation of powers and institutional checks; contains the quoted maxim 'ambition must be made to counteract ambition,' directly supporting the public-administration architectural-logic claim.
- Political science & public administration: Government structure (separation of powers, federalism, unitarism), legislative bodies (parliaments, congresses, councils), regulatory agencies (licensing, standard-setting, enforcement), constitutional law, administrative procedure—a domain whose architectural logic Madison (1788) sets out in Federalist 51's account of how "ambition must be made to counteract ambition" through institutional checks.
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