Why is it significant that Brutus describes them as “great thinkers”? Brutus raised concerns about the elements of the Constitution that proposed moving from a confederation to a federal system.

The state governments, Madison argues, are closer to the people and can focus on the welfare of the people, regulating ordinary affairs such as the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, as well as the internal order of each state, and should have numerous undefined powers to do so, while the national …

Explain how Brutus uses the “great thinkers” to support his argument: He uses them by saying that they believe that the country is too large to be governed by one free republic.

• Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
• Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
• Confucius (551–479 BCE)
• René Descartes (1596–1650)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 82)
• Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
• David Hume (1711–77)
• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)

How does Madison continue to develop the idea he introduced earlier regarding the “just right” proportion of representatives to citizens or constituents? By saying that the smaller/local state gov. balances the larger, central gov. Why does Brutus think that people should care about the form of gov?

“Brutus,” a New York Antifederalist, or opponent of the proposed Constitution (generally assumed to have been Robert Yates, a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention), anticipated by two weeks the opening paragraph of Federalist 1, also addressed to the people of New York.

What does it mean to be a good citizen? This means fulfilling the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. Duties include paying taxes, obeying laws, and respecting the rights of others. Responsibilities include voting, volunteering, and participating in civic life.