Assignment task:
Hamilton states, "The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever.....
It proves incontestably, that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power."
Do you agree or disagree with Hamilton's assertion that the Judiciary Branch is by far the weakest of the three branches? Explain your position using the text of Federalist #78. Which groups of Americans might have disagreed with this calculation?