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| 12427505668 | Federalist No. 10 (James Madison) | Political factions are undesirable but inevitable; factions need to be controlled and that would happens better in a large republic | 0 | |
| 12427505669 | Federalist No. 51 (James Madison) | People in power will always try to become more powerful; separation of powers with checks and balances will preserve a limited government; "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" | 1 | |
| 12427505670 | Brutus No. 1 | Antifederalist paper; the Constitution would create a federal government that would "possess absolute and uncontrollable power..." because of the Necessary and Proper Clause and the Supremacy Clause | 2 | |
| 12427505671 | Federalist No. 70 | Hamilton argued for a unitary executive (one person-not a counsel) to lead the executive branch for both "energy and safety" [good government, efficiency, and national security] | 3 | |
| 12427505672 | Federalist No. 78 | discusses the merits of life tenure and the power of judicial review; argues that the federal courts have the duty to determine whether acts of Congress are unconstitutional | 4 | |
| 12427505673 | Letter from a Birmingham Jail | Open letter from Martin Luther King Jr. that defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism | 5 |
