Reflection Paper Three- Federalist No. 10 and 51

Federalist No. 10

"No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity."

I believe that this quote applied to Madison's point the most. Madison goes throughout this article trying to explain the importance of the Union, especially amongst factions. The Union should be made up of majority. That is that no one or two people,races,genders,etc, should make up what is done within the Union. The people should elect who falls within the Union as well as what the are allowed to control, and how. 

There is a great importance of the Union amongst Factions. Madison stated: "There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects." In order to remove the causes or effects there has to be a central government, or union able to do this. For example oil companies aren't allowed to pollute/liter, they cannot dump oil anywhere they please. The Union regulates this, if they did not the faction (oil company) would do whatever they please , hurting the people. The union is acting in interest of the people , for the people.

Federalist No. 51

"TO WHAT expedient, then, shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the Constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places"

Madison is stating how we  can enforce the power that one person or branch has , other than just writing it within the Constitution. That they've tried other ways of controlling who has how much power, and none of these ways have yet to work. Therefor a system should be in place where one branch of government is kept honest, or held accountable by another branch, through a system of checks and balances.