51, a framer of the Constitution, because the government is divided into separate parts, “double security arises to the rights of the people”. Before the separation of powers existed, when America was under the power of Britain, America had almost no voice in British Parliament. Because the American colonist voice was not heard, Britain had the power to create heavy taxes on goods like tea and paper, oppressing the American colony without permission. James Madison referenced this notion of abusive power in his Federalist No. 51, when stating how “governments possessing an hereditary or self-appointed authority” often make decisions that the general public does not improve. However, with a system of separation of power within in the American republic, according to the Constitutional framers every decision is reviewed over at the benefit of the …show more content…
During the Amendment Process, the U.S. Constitution is “amended”; something is added, removed, or subtracted from part of the document. For one of the twenty-seven amendments, or current articles of the U.S. Constitution, to be amended, there is a major governmental process involved. First, for an amendment to be proposed, Congress needs to have a two-thirds majority vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. After the amendment is created, the new document is sent to NARA’s Office of the Federal Legislature for the processing and publication before the states decide whether or not it should be approve. If the proposed amendment is ratified by at least 38 of the 50 states, or two-thirds of the states, the amendment is ready to be added to the United States Constitution. The principle of the long Amendment Process was put into place due to the nature of mankind to have “bias in his judgment”, according to James Madison in The Federalist Papers No. 10. In Madison’s eyes, more different groups of people checking over an amendment the better, as there is less selfishness and bias. When an amendment is proposed in the American federal government, there is little bias because, according to Madison, “the federal Constitution forms a happy combination…the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national [and] the local and