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Article Evaluation:

I read an article titled Federalist No. 51 which was overall a decent overview of the key points of one of the most well known Federalist Papers. It contained many helpful links to other pages on important terms such as James Madison and checks and balances which are always useful when in need of additional background information. While the paper itself isn't especially long, I still believe that this article could benefit from expansion in some of its sections, as it is pretty short as a whole. Specifically, additional content regarding the duty of separate branches of government to check each other could have been added, as this is one of the main and most important points of the paper.

While the original text of the Federalist Papers is, of course, a valid source, I think it could have improved the article if the author had researched various outside interpretations of different sections to add a bit more variability and information, as there was only one additional reference. The talk page had some interesting as well as some irrelevant comments. One person felt the need to critique Madison, while clearly this Wikipedia article was not written by Madison himself, but is meant to be a summary of his work.Lily444 (talk) 04:02, 23 February 2018 (UTC)