The Federalist #10 by James Madison Audio Recording

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Federalist No. 10 is an essay written by James Madison as the tenth of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays initiated by Alexander Hamilton arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution. Published on November 22, 1787 under the name "Publius", Federalist No. 10 is among the most highly regarded of all American political writings.
No. 10 addresses the question of how to reconcile citizens with interests contrary to the rights of others or inimical to the interests of the community as a whole. Madison saw factions as inevitable due to the nature of man-that is, as long as people hold differing opinions, have differing amounts of wealth and own differing amount of property, they will continue to form alliances with people who are most similar to them and they will sometimes work against the public interest and infringe upon the rights of others. He thus questions how to guard against those dangers.

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@trentp151 Жыл бұрын

Madison is attempting to portray the idea that a republican form of government is the most secure way to maintain our REPUBLIC, and that democracy may prevail at state levels, but the federal government should remain a republic and in small stature in order to fend off national-level threats to our constitutional rights. He is correct.

@orlandoirizarry5156 Жыл бұрын

A Masterpiece!

@OriginalElements5 9 ай бұрын

He warned us

@shawty.413 Жыл бұрын

thankyou sm .

@worlore1651 6 күн бұрын

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire. An ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty which is essential to politicial life, because it nurishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air which is essential to animal life, because it emparts to fire its destructive agency. Faction (different parties) are necessary to political life and due to these factions, humans lack, or cease the ability to understand their own circumstance, and provide a unbias, good judgement for the whole, but instead choose synicism for the self. One of the two ways to end this factions is to destroy liberty or to provide all humans with the same possessions and opinions and feelings. The second is impossible, the first is moronic. As air is to fire liberty is to faction. Perhaps faction and fire are bad but without air animals would cease to exist as would politics without faction and liberty.

@faithgonzalez427 Жыл бұрын

Never thought I’d be listening to this rushing to get my Ap gov homework done 🫡

@shawty.413 Жыл бұрын

bruh politcal science for me 😹😹

@redalaska Жыл бұрын

Law school

@josephvitolo8561 10 ай бұрын

Ap gov me

@Jazzberry-jam 9 ай бұрын

AP US history

@damienbeaman5443 6 ай бұрын

Constitutional law

@salswordfish 2 жыл бұрын

Madison kinda shat the bed with this one

@AlanaWest Жыл бұрын

Is that good?

@samuelkinch4153 Жыл бұрын

No idea what’s going on here

@YitRapper Жыл бұрын

i have to read this for a college class and what the hell is this talking about

@beau9686 Жыл бұрын

To distill what he’s saying: for a republic style government to work, people need the right to choice and free will, the issue with this is that through the choice and free will necessary for that government to function, people will form factions (like political parties for instance), and if one of these factions should gain a majority, their power would be unchecked. Madison suggests a large and diverse republic so that many interests may be in competition, so that they may prevent tyranny by the majority, insuring a more secure and democratic society.

@trinitytoinfinity Жыл бұрын

😭😭😭 I’m saying

@trentp151 Жыл бұрын

@@beau9686 It's not to secure a more democratic society, it's to secure a republican form of government... Nice try though.

@stantrien8106 10 ай бұрын

@@beau9686 Hence why the 17th amendment was a horrible idea that shrunk the number of interests represented in congress and lead to every over reach that has happened since.

@Elizabeth68337 10 ай бұрын

🤓

@digaddog6099 11 ай бұрын

It seems like the definition of democracy has changed since Madison's time. From #39: If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior. I have not yet found a definition of democracy from James Madison. However, here he defines a pure democracy by what we now call direct democracy, whereas a republic is defined by what we now call representative democracy. Also, Madison argues here that the structure of the government would prevent the government from allying with any one economic class over another, even the majority. At least he was right on the "majority" part.

@collin501 10 ай бұрын

Which economic class does the US ally with today, according to you?

@sambennett2319 22 күн бұрын

Probably the one that gave Justice Thomas a half a million dollar vacation after a Supreme Court ruling benefited a company owned in part by the gifter