Federalist No. 51

Questions:
1. What would happen if all three branches were one?
2. What is the difference between a Compounded Republic and a Pure Republic?
3.How do Checks and balances keep our government in tact?
4. What is the best way to fight tyranny over a minority?
5.What would happen to our government if the system of Checks and Balances was absent?

Quotes:
"It is equally evident, that the members of each department should be as little dependent as possible on those of the others, for the emoluments annexed to their offices. Were the executive magistrate, or the judges, not independent of the legislature in this particular, their independence in every other would be merely nominal."
I chose this quote because it made me think about how dependent each department really should be on each other. Madison says that they should be a little dependent as possible, but at the same time, they are working in the same government.

"In a single republic, all the power surrendered by the people is submitted to the administration of a single government"
I chose this quote because here, Madison explains how in a Republic, the power that the people surrender and give up to the representatives is ultimately going towards a single government.

"This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public"
In this quote, Madison explains how power is divided up almost strategically so that each smaller office may rely on the other.

"If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure"
In this quote, Madison is saying that, if a majority of a population shares the same interest, the minority's interest will be insecure because the majority will override anything the minority says.

"There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority"
This quote is the solution to the fourth quote.  If a will, independent of the majority is created in the community, the minority will not be dominated as easily.