- The Court system is better suited for the protection of individual’s rights than the other branches of our government because the other branches are focused on issues that effect many if not all citizens whereas the Court system deals with issues on a case by case basis, or in other words, by the individual. The second reason is that the court system is the branch of our government most responsible for upholding limitations on the other branches of government. This means that as long as the Court systems stays in power neither of the other branches will be able to overpower our democracy. Thirdly, the Court system is responsible for the law. Since the law is what protects our individual freedoms, this is also the responsibility of the Court system.
- The relevance of this question to federalist 10 is that Maddison believes that having qualified people in government is more important than sustaining a completely democratic system. Democracy is complicated and often results in a two steps forward one step back approach to progressiveness. While I agree that having appointed representatives is more indicative of a republic than a democracy, this is why the US is often called a Democratic Republic by technicality. More specifically than a democracy, we are a representative democracy, wherein some representatives may be elected by the people, but other representatives are elected by the representatives themselves like in the case of the Supreme Court or the Electoral College.
I set this DB to self publish at 10:59 because I’m out of the state and thought I might have to compensate for the time change.
