Question

1) Type the correct answer using complete sentences.

In The Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilton supported the creation of a judiciary that was independent of the other branches. He wrote:

“The judiciary…has no influence over either the sword [the executive] or the purse [the legislature]; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.”

In your own short no symbols 7th grader words, give Hamilton’s argument for why the judicial branch was the weakest of all of the branches. 4-5 sentences

Answer 1

Hamilton said the courts did not control the military or the government money. They could not make people obey their decisions or collect taxes. Judges only had the power to say what the law means, not to carry out their rulings. Because of that, the courts were the weakest branch and had to rely on the president and Congress to make their decisions work.