{"id":640,"date":"2025-03-07T08:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/?p=640"},"modified":"2025-03-07T08:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:53:22","slug":"federalist-78-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/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<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On what grounds does Hamilton argue that the judicial department of government is the least powerful branch of government?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Why do you suppose that Hamilton was so careful to point out the relative impotence of the judiciary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. 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>4. Why does Hamilton consider the independence of the judiciary to be a vital component of constitutional government?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. What arguments does Hamilton use to support life tenure for <\/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 be a quiz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assignments","tag-judicial-branch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrwaddell.com\/usgovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}