AP US Government Required Documents

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What is meant by a faction according to the quote: "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community"?

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Federalist #10

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What document warns that a government may lead to the subversion of liberty and establish despotism or a tyrannic aristocracy?

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Brutus #1

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“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary”

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Federalist #51

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“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government”

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Declaration of Independence

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In republican government the legislative authority, necessarily, predominates. The remedy for this inconvenience is, to divide the legislative into different branches.

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Federalist #51

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“Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government."

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Federalist #70

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“The different governments will control each other; at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.”

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Articles of Confederation

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In a republic of such vast extent as the United-States, the legislature cannot attend to the various concerns and wants of its different parts. It cannot be sufficiently numerous to be acquainted with the local condition and wants of the different districts, and if it could, it is impossible it should have sufficient time to attend to and provide for all the variety of cases of this nature, that would be continually arising.

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Brutus #1

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"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

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"That, to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

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Declaration of Independence