Question

James Madison argued:________

a. against all interest groups.
b. for the advocacy of self-interest free from all systems of restraint.
c. for regulation of interests through a governing system of checks and balances.
d. for the replacement of interest groups by formal political parties.
e. for a powerful judiciary.

Answer 1

Option C, for regulation of interests through a governing system of checks and balances, is the right answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

James Madison wrote an essay named "The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments". This essay forms the fifty-first of The Federalist Papers. This essay got published on 8th February 1788 under pseudonym Publius. In this document, James Madison gives the idea of establishing a system of checks and balances and separation of power in the structure of the federal government.