FEDERALIST NO. 51

"Whilst all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of the individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority. In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of the country and number of people comprehended under the same government."

What I think he is trying to say in this passage is that all authority or government system would depend on the society itself. He says that the society will be broken down into many parts and classes of citizens. The rights of the minority wouldn't be threatened by the majority. He states that in a free government the peoples civil rights will be the same as those with religious rights. I think what he also tries to say is that the extent in which the government would go with its rights and regulations would depend on the number of its civilians. 

I chose this passage because it had a lot of information on the rights of a society. It was difficult to comprehend but I grasped the main idea of it.