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Question for Saturday, April 19, 2014:

According to James D. Best, how many years did it take to ratify the 27^th Amendment?

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Question for Friday, March 28, 2014:

Allison Hayward wrote in her essay on Federalist No. 15 that Hamilton spoke of troubles for the country because the “present configuration is inadequate to the task.”  She explained that because the central government could not govern, four issues would occur.  What were the four issues?

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Question for Monday, March 24:

Janine Turner was so moved by the Federalist Papers that in her essay on Federalist No. 20, she was inspired to write a poem titled The Ransom of Reason.  What is the last stanza of this poem? Read more

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Question for Wednesday, March 19:

In John S. Baker’s essay on Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, he states that this clause is often mischaracterized as what?

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Question for Friday, March 14:

One of the most well known Federalist Papers, Federalist 51,  contains this quote:

“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”

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In her essay on Federalist #62, Janine Turner identifies a quote that is very relevant today:

“The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action n; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?”

Question for Monday, March 10: Please list another quote in Federalist #62 that Janine mentions in her essay as relevant or profound. Read more