{"id":833,"date":"2025-03-07T03:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T03:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/?p=833"},"modified":"2025-03-07T03:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T03:17:54","slug":"federalist-78-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/2025\/03\/07\/federalist-78-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Federalist #78"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Below you will find Federalist #78. This required document deals with the Judicial Branch. Please read the document and answer the following questions. There will be a quiz over the document on the next scheduled class period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrwaddell.com\/files\/fed78.pdf\">Federalist #78<br><\/a><br><em>The following questions will help your understanding of the document.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On what grounds does Hamilton argue that the judicial department of government is the least powerful branch of government?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do you suppose that Hamilton was so careful to point out the relative impotence of the judiciary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was Hamilton\u2019s position regarding the power of the judiciary to declare void any legislative acts that were contrary to the Constitution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does Hamilton consider the independence of the judiciary to be a vital component of constitutional government?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What arguments does Hamilton use to support life tenure for judges?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below you will find Federalist #78. This required document deals with the Judicial Branch. Please read the document and answer the following questions. There will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,12],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readings","tag-federalist-78","tag-judicial-branch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/apgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}