¶ … authors of the Federalist Papers take for granted that human motives arise from 3 sources: passion, interest and virtue. Their goals regarding the 3 are, PASSION; (1) to prevent passions from being aroused, (2) to keep already aroused passions from having civically harmful effects. INTEREST; (3) to encourage the development of useful interests, (4) channel interests that already exist in civically useful directions. VIRTUE; (5) encourage the development of virtue, (6) put virtue that already exist to good civic use.
(a) List features of Constitution which in their view tend to have effect number (1). Briefly explain why they hold this expectation. Repeat with effects numbers (2), (4) and (6).
Federalist paper no. 10 written by James Madison is commonly accepted as the most influential paper. Therefore, this paper is prepared using the definitions of Federalist paper no. 10.
(1) To prevent passions from being aroused
Madison dictates that human being naturally has a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility. This prevents individuals to be aware of the common good and articulate legislation for that purpose. This unfriendly passion damages the democracy.
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities that where no substantial occasion presents itself the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their infriendly passions...
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