Can anyone summarize what the federalist paper No. 50 is about

Question

I've read it but i just cant seem to grasp it. Please Some one help!!!

Answer 1

Federalist papers 48 through 51 are a continuation of Federalist Paper 47 which the basic subject examines the separation of the Departments (branches) of government.  All are written by James Madison.

These five federalist Papers look at the 'structure' of government to instruct readers in the true meaning of "the political maxim that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct.  He uses the examples of the British and State constitutions to demonstrate the limits beyond which this great principle cannot be driven.

In Federalist 48 this subject continues as Madison draws on his friend Thomas Jefferson to demonstrate the particular tendency of legislatures to usurp the powers of the other branches.  He sets the stage for his subsequent praise of checks and balances by insisting that "parchment barriers" are not enough to prevent the "tyrannical concentration of all powers of government in the same hands."

He continues in Federalist 49 as he asserts that a "constitutional road to the decision of the people ought to be marked out and kept open for certain great and extraordinary occasions," but warns against using this road too often.  The case against "direct democracy" is put.

This continues in Federalist 50 with further considerations of the impropriety of direct popular participation in the decisions of government.

Finally he continues on this subject in federalist 51 by announcing his solution to the problem of the separation of powers, by offering a solution to the problem of ordered liberty.  He actually returns to Federalist 10 and finds "security for civil rights," not in charters or in appeals to humanity, but in "the multiplicity of interests" that characterizes a free society.  He concludes that in this view of the subject by recommending a proper federal system to all the sincere and considerate friends of republican government.

Answer 2

FEDERALIST PAPER No. 50

Periodical Appeals to the People Considered

From the New York Packet.

Tuesday, February 5, 1788

Alexander Hamilton / James Madison