Why American government works

10: In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

• This is an example of how America’s government works, because it provides a way for the people as a whole to be majority represented. It also makes sure that no one of such unwanted representation is able to be chosen through the right minds of the people. This puts in place how leaders should be carefully picked and that their backgrounds should be very intellectual yet affable.

51: In a single republic, all the power surrendered by the people is submitted to the administration of a single government; and the usurpations are guarded against by a division of the government into distinct and separate departments. In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.

• This is an example of how America’s government works, because it is a failsafe system that recursively checks itself. The power doesn’t rest on one department, rather all the departments and so all the sub-departments equally. This system protects against those who want to take in more power, as the rest of the government makes sure this never takes place.