The main idea of Madison's essay is to focus on factions and how a Republican government can decrease the effects of factions.
Connections
- It is best suggested that the Federalist Papers can best be studied in conjunction with the Anti - Federalist opposition. (Dry Pg. 1)
- Whether or not the country should stay colonized or have one central government over all the country. (Dry Pg. 4)
- The extent of the powers for the Government based on the Federalist idea. (Dry Pg. 8-9)
1. Large Republic = more representatives= less corruption
2. Larger the Republic, larger the faction
3. Without a large Republic, tyranny of the majority. Country not unified.
James Madison
Federalist 10 Quotes
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 18
Passage from Paragraph 1
Paragraph 10
In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success....
"Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties.....
"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency."
"The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects."
Difficult Vocabulary
- Propensity- Natural tendency to behave a certain way.
- Erroneously- containing an error.
- Opprobrium- public disgrace arising from one's shameful acts.
- Conflagration- extensive fire that destroys land or property.
- Desideration- Thing which is desired.
How do we control Factions?
How do these papers affect us today?
- Madison believed that Factions themselves could not be controlled but the effects of them could.
- To this day we refer back to the Federalist Papers to help understand more clearly what the writers of the Constitution had in mind when they drafted the constitution.
- He suggested that the proposed Constitution would keep these factions in check by balancing one against the other.
The Reason For Federalist Papers
- He also thought that the effects of factions would be better controlled in a large society under a representative form of government.
What is Madison trying to say in his papers?
Continued
- At the beginning of his paper Madison is talking about how a strong Constitution can control violent Factions.
- Factions were described in Madison's paper as being dangerous. He believed they could cause instability in the government.
- Despite his beliefs, Madison knows that there will always be factions because of the vast differences in opinion.
- James Madison, Jon Jay, and Alexander Hamilton came together to write the Federalist papers to support the constitution.
- The papers were published in the newspaper. At first they never told who the writers were but a few years later we find out who the writers are.
- 77 articles were published, these articles were so well liked that New York became the 11th state to ratify(agree) to the constitution.
- In 1787 the constitution was sent out to the states for approval.
- The public was divided, most people were against it because they thought it blocked the rights of individual states.
- New York was a state that disagreed with the constitution. people wrote essays published in newspapers against it.
- They also thought it took away power from states and would drastically reduce freedom
- - Born in 1751 to a wealthy Virginia family.
- - Growing up he was very studious and loved to read
- - He went to Princeton where he became interested in politics.
- - He was an American Statesman he was also our Fourth President.
- - Served in office from March 1809 to March 1817
Federalist Paper Number 10
By: Elliott McCummings, Logan Watkins, Jakob Nelson, Brianna Worthy, Jesse Fry, Colby Dixon