Compare And Contrast The Legislative, Executive And Judicial Branches Of Government

the division of legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. Additionally, the legislative branch would be Congress, the executive branch would be the President, and the judicial branch would be the U.S. Supreme Court being the highest court. Madison emphasizes the idea that it is important to create the government in a way that each branch of government will keep each other in their proper places. For example, he states that “it is evident that each department should have a will of its own; and consequently should be so constituted that the members of each should have little agency as possible in the appointment of the members of others” (page 40). In order to ensure their independence, each branch of government shouldn’t have …show more content…
He applies that “the different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself” (page 43). Secondly, Madison notes that a majority might threaten the rights of the minority. The tyranny of the majority is the abuse of the minority by the majority. In other words, members of the majority religion could force other members of small religious groups to preserve the majority faith. Protecting minority interests, Madison explains that minority interests find protection in a society with multiple interests. In a larger federal republic, the large number of interest will secure that no one interest is large enough to become the majority interest. Referring back to Federalist No. 10, Madison explains “there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects”(page 29). In other words, he understands that people hold different opinions, property, and wealth. However, as long as people hold these things and continue to group with citizens similar to them, he cannot take away their liberty or give everyone the same