Federalist and Anti-Federalist eview
Federalist papers were written in support of the ratification of the U.S. constitution while anti-federalists were written in opposition of the same. The most important papers in federalist series were paper 10 and 5 both written by James Madison on the subject of power distribution within the federation. Anti-federalist paper 3 was written under the pseudonym Brutus and meant to oppose the arguments raised by Madison on power distribution. Keeping in mind these papers and the arguments made in the same, we might ask ourselves how these authors will review the modern government and its power distribution. If we look at Federalist paper 10 and the arguments rose in the same, we might connect it closely to cases of internal insurgence that can arise in large republic because of factions or interest groups. Let us see if this applies to our country today. Factions are present in…...

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ANTIFEDERALIST PAPER BRUTUS 3

FEDERALIST PAPERS 10 AND 15

Federalist hat is a faction? here in modern American politics do we see factions? How does Madison propose to quell the impact of factions in government?
In Federalist 10, James Madison discussed the types of factions, parties and interest groups that result from differences in wealth and property, as well as differences of opinion in religion, politics or ideology. He thought that differences in wealth and rank, at least those not based on birth, were determined by the diversity in faculties or abilities in human beings, and that government had to protect such diversity. Certainly, the two major political parties that exist today have significant differences by social class, religion, race, region and income, although there are also a huge number of factions, associations, lobbyists and interest groups outside of these parties. Factions and parties that did not have a majority would always be outvoted, but a majority party would be…...

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WORKS CITED

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Available at:  http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol8/iss3/2 

D'Amato, Anthony. "Can Any Legal Theory Constrain Any Judicial Decision?" University of Miami Law Review: 513-539 (Jan 1989)

Northwestern University School of Law, [email protected]

Federalist Papers
The purpose of the Federalist Papers

The Federalist Papers were prepared to ensure that a constitution was ratified to provide a perfect union. The Papers focused on the concept of a perfect and improved union. While this could be the primary purpose of the document, it was also concerned with other things. Aspects of the federalist like welfare, safety, and union are inseparable, and the union seems to be much of a means used to guarantee this for the people (Charles, 2009). Besides, the federalist papers consider federalism as a tool of achieving a free government in terms of security and peace.

The essays adding up to the federalist had a significant purpose. Immediately after its publication, it revealed to the people of New York the importance of ratifying the constitution. This word spread to all States in the union, which took the lead in the ratification of this document. New…...

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References

Bibace, R. (2010). The Continuation of the Federalist Papers. Minneapolis: Hillcrest Pub. Group.

Charles, P.J. (2009). The Second Amendment: The intent and its interpretation by the states and the Supreme Court. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co.

Stobaugh, J.P. (2012). American history: Observations & assessments from early settlement to today. Green Forest, Ark: Master Books.

Federalist Paper #10, James Madison discusses the Union's ability to control and break the influence of specific factions over the governmental process. The paper includes many strengths, and a few weaknesses. Yet the overall paper convinced me of the purpose of the Union in this capacity.
Federalist Paper # 10 begins with a discussion of the problem at hand, that of how to control the factions of a nation. The paper discusses how factions, identified as "a number of citizens...who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest..." (Federalist Paper #10, para 2), have historically been the downfalls of democracy. According to the paper, specific factions within the larger body of government often disregard the public opinion, and good of the public, to pursue their own regulations based on their own belief system. The paper also points out that while the people of the Union may…...

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References

James Madison. "Appendix D: Federalist Nos. 10." American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials (2001 Ed.). Ed. Steffen W. Schmidt. New York, NY: Thompson Learning, 2001. 531-540.

United States Constitution. Article 1, Sections 1-10.

Federalist Papers
ritten more than two hundred years ago, Alexander Hamilton's, John Jay's and James Madison's Federalist Papers remain completely relevant in describing American political philosophy and clarifying the country's political history. The Federalist Papers outline some of the main causes for the creation of a new nation based on fundamental rights, freedoms, and personal liberties. As their title suggests, the papers set forth an argument in favor of a strong national government that could secure the personal safety and domestic security of all citizens of the United States. However, several of the papers contain ideas that have become outmoded or in some cases, incorrect.

In Paper 8, the authors describe the need for political unification of disparate states for military defense reasons. hen the states are unified under a federal government, they will be better protected from hostile external forces. In contrast, small states are vulnerable and must maintain standing armies;…...

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Works Cited

Hamilton, Alexander, Madison, James, and Jay, John (under pen name Publius). "The Consequences of Hostilities Between the States." 20 Nov 1787. The Federalist Papers: No. 8. Retrieved 24 July 2005 online from The Avalon Project at Yale Law School at  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed08.htm 

Hamilton, Alexander, Madison, James, and Jay, John (under pen name Publius). "Advantage of the Union in Respect to Economy in Government." n.d. The Federalist Papers: No. 8. Retrieved 24 July 2005 online from The Avalon Project at Yale Law School at  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed13.htm 

Hamilton, Alexander, Madison, James, and Jay, John (under pen name Publius). "Concerning the General Power of Taxation." 28 Dec 1787. The Federalist Papers: No. 8. Retrieved 24 July 2005 online from The Avalon Project at Yale Law School at  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed30.htm 

Hamilton, Alexander, Madison, James, and Jay, John (under pen name Publius). "Periodical Appeals to the People Considered." 5 Feb 1788. The Federalist Papers: No. 8. Retrieved 24 July 2005 online from The Avalon Project at Yale Law School at  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed50.htm

This is unlike the President, who relies on reelections and his payment from the legislature. The standards for a President to be impeached are much greater, and he or she should have to face repercussions even during his or tenure in office. Thus the standard for impeaching the President should differ than that of a judge, and that judges should not be involved with the impeachment of the president.
This point is brought home again in Federalist Paper 65 which specifies "that the Supreme Court would have been an improper substitute for the Senate, as a court of impeachments" which reflects that the standard of impeaching the President is through the Senate. This is because judges, who are permanent in office as mentioned before are separate and irrelevant from the people, who are represented by the Senate. Also significant to the impeachment of the President is the fact that "conviction…...

" However, the legislature, more so than the executive or even the more qualified judiciary must dominate, not because the legislature is more representative, but because, as it the legislature is even further divided into two bodies, this ensures that it will be the least tyrannical.
In short, the less able a branch of government is able to agree within itself, the better -- and the less able the three branches of government can arrive at a uniform consensus, the better, along Madison's way of thinking. Madison's sense of cynicism about men not being 'angels' and his idea that men are even perhaps less angelic when governing over other men runs through the text of "The Federalist 51." Cynicism, and also healthy fear about the power of what might be called the majority 'rabble' to make bad decisions, or to band together into factions and take control over the government: "is…...

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Works Cited

Madison, James. "Federalist Paper 51." Complete E-text available 26 Nov 2008 at  http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm

At the end of Hume's essay was a discussion that could not help being of interest to Madison. Hume expressed that in a large government there is enough room to refine the democracy, from the lower people, who may be admitted into the first elections of the commonwealth, to the higher magistrate, who direct all of the movements.

Madison had developed his own theory of the extended republic. It is interesting to see how he took these scattered and incomplete fragments and built on them to make them into an intellectual and theoretical structure of his own. Madison's first full statement of this hypothesis appeared in his "Notes on the Confederacy" written in April 1787, eight months before the final version of it was published as the tenth federalist. Starting with the proposition that "in republican government, the majority, ultimately give the law." Madison then asks, what is to restrain an…...

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References

David Hume: Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary [online]. 2001. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, available at   accessed 18 June 2005.http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/humeessa.htm ;Internet,

Notes on the Confederacy [online]. 1787. James Madison University; available at   accessed 18 June 2005.http://www.jmu.edu/madison/gpos225-madison2/constitution.htm;Internet ;

The Federalist Papers: No. 10 [online]. 1996-2003. Yale Law School; available at   accessed 18 June 2005.http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed10.htm ;Internet;

Endnotes www.jmu.edu/madison/gpos225-madison2/constitution.htm (2005).

Efforts were made to check the power of the majority as well as the minority, for to achieve justice not simply in the perfection of the individual soul but to create a functioning and just government that has effective checks and balances that stymie the pursuit of happiness of its citizens, "is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but also to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority is united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure." Justice is when both the majority and the minority have equal rights to speak, to fail, and succeed in Publius' view, in a world lacking philosophically angelic and perfect institutions.
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Plato. "Phaedo." MIT Classics Archive. Last modified…...

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Plato. "Phaedo." MIT Classics Archive. Last modified 2004 at  http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedo.html 

Publius. "Federalist No. 51." The Avalon Project. Last modified 2004 at  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed51.htm 

Publius, "Federalist No. 51," the Avalon Project, last modified 2004 at

Federalist Paper #51
The theory behind Madison's Federalist Paper #51 is an acknowledgement that the "have-nots" in any society are extremely likely to seek retribution against the "haves," and, like Hamilton, believed class struggle is inseparable from politics. Positioning himself in this manner clearly shows that he had emancipated himself from the sterile dualistic view of society that was so common in the eighteenth century and that so obsessed Hamilton. However, wherein Hamilton viewed the shared spirit of the several states as poisonous to the union, Madison was aware that the preservation of state governments could serve the cause of both liberty and union and because of extreme vastness of the United States at that time this was the most steadfast way to preserve the union.

It is interesting to note that the Federalist papers are unique as well because of the extreme amount of thought that was put into the design…...

However, Madison believed that a republican form of government could control for the impact of factions on the political process.
Madison believed that a republican form of government had several advantages over a straight democracy. First, under a democracy, there is no delegation of power to elected officials, which would make it unduly cumbersome to govern a country as large as America. Second, Madison believed that by entrusting the government to a small group of elected officials, one might be able to avoid the clashing and fighting that marked the existing political debate. However, Madison was not na ve; he recognized that a republican form of government was ripe for abuse if the elected offices were held by factious persons. To remedy that problem, Madison suggested that the number of elected officials be sufficiently large, "in order to guard against the cabals of a few; and that, however large it…...

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Works Cited

Madison, James. "The Federalist Papers: No. 10." The Avalon Project at Yale University.

November 23, 1787. Yale University. 22 Oct. 2007  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed10.htm .

Federalist Papers 1
In Federalist Paper #1, it was stated that history will teach that emphasis on the rights of man is far more likely to end in despotism and tyranny than emphasis on “firmness and efficiency of government” (Federalist No. 1, 2008). In other words, Hamilton and the Federalists were now trying to back track and step back from America’s emphasis on the Rights of Man (Paine’s philosophy and words) eloquently put forward in the Declaration of Independence and used to justify the revolt against the Crown. Now that independence had been gained, the Federalists wanted a strong, central government that they themselves could control so that they could effectively lord it over the individual states and circumvent any autonomy or individual states asserting their rights. The best example of this, of course, would be the Civil War, in which the Federal government would deny the states the right to leave…...

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References

Anti-Federalist No. 1. (1787). Retrieved from

Anti-Federalist No. 9. (1788). Retrieved from https://www.constitution.org/afp/brutus09.htm

Anti-Federalist No. 46. (1788). Retrieved from http://resources.utulsa.edu/law/classes/rice/Constitutional/AntiFederalist/46.htm

Anti-Federalist No. 84. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://jpfo.org/articles-assd/anti-fed-84.htm

Federalist No. 1. (2008). Retrieved from http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed01.asp

Federalist No. 10. (2008). Retrieved from http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed10.asp

Federalist No. 51. (2008). Retrieved from http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp

Federalist No. 84. (2008). Retrieved from http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed84.asphttps://www.constitution.org/afp/brutus01.htm

Federalist No.
Primary Source Analysis

On September 17, 1787 the Constitution of the United States was signed by 39 delegates from 12 states in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after spending the summer debating the final form in the first Constitutional Convention. The Constitution represented in part an attempt to prevent the dissolution of the confederacy of states formed by the shared goal of independence, by forming a strong federal government (hodenhamel, 1987, p. 6).

Once the Constitution had been signed it had to be ratified by at least nine states before the federal government could be formed. To urge the states to ratify, a series of influential essays were published in New York newspapers by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, under the pseudonym Publius (hodenhamel, 1987, p. 45). This collection of essays was called The Federalist Papers (Genovese, 2009).

Historians have since recognized that the most influential of the essays, The Federalist…...

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References

Genovese, Michael A. (Ed.). (2009). The Federalist Papers. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Retrieved from  http://lib.myilibrary.com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/Open.aspx?id=276510&src=2 

Madison, James. (1787, Nov. 23). Federalist No. 10: The size and variety of the union as a check on faction. New York Packet. Retrieved from   Also available in Genovese, 2009, p. 49.http://faculty.rcc.edu/sellick/Fed10.pdf .

Rhodenhamel, John H. (1987). Letters of liberty: A documentary history of the U.S. Constitution. Constitutional Rights Foundation, Los Angeles. Microfiche.

The Federalists advocated a strong central government while the Anti-Federalists advocated state governments. The former feared that division would lead to fighting and instability. The latter feared that centralized power would lead to the kind of totalitarianism that the American Revolutionaries had just victoriously opposed in the War for Independence. This paper will describe why I would align myself with the Anti-Federalists because of their aversion for centralized power.
The difference between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists was all about what kind of government the United States would have. The Federalists wanted to ratify the Constitution (which we have today) because it defined the ways in which states would be subject to a federal government and the ways in which they would be free to act on their own. The view of the Federalists was that the Constitution would protect the states from "domestic factions and convulsions" and provide unity and…...

Introduction
The penning of the American Constitution during the 1787 Philadelphia convention was followed by its ratification. This formal process delineated within Article 7 necessitated at least 9 states’ agreement to implement the Constitution, prior to actually enacting it (Pole, 1987). Whilst the Federalists supported ratification, Anti-Federalists were against it.

Those opposed to the constitution’s ratification claimed that it accorded disproportionate power to federal authorities, whilst robbing local and state bodies of their power, excessively. According to Anti-Federalists, the American federal government wouldn’t be able to adequately represent its citizens owing to the size of the nation and its population which deemed it impossible for federal branches to locally respond to citizens’ concerns (Lewis, 1967; Amar, 1993). Moreover, they were concerned about the absence of the provision of criminal jury trials, besides the absence of a bill of rights within the Constitution, and desired guaranteed protection of a few fundamental freedoms for citizens, including freedom of speech…...

It is difficult to answer any question that asks about how the founders felt about anything.  While there were many more people involved in the American Revolution, resulting in some disagreement about who was a founder, there is a list of 10 people that consistently get mentioned as founders or founding fathers.  However, these 10 people were not ideologically identical.  In fact, there was a substantial amount of disagreement among them about a number of topics, including the rule of the average person in democracy.  To get a better feel for their competing ideas, you can reference....

Thesis Statement: The Founding Fathers of the United States were a remarkable group of individuals who, despite their diverse backgrounds and often conflicting views, came together to create a new nation based on the principles of liberty, equality, and self-government. Their vision and determination laid the foundation for a vibrant and enduring democracy that has served as a model for countless nations around the world.

Introduction:

The Founding Fathers of the United States were a diverse group of individuals who came from different backgrounds, had different experiences, and held different beliefs. However, they shared a common goal: to create a new nation....

Essay Topic: The Impact of Electoral College Reform on Future Presidential Elections

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Protects against tyranny of the majority: The Electoral College prevents a candidate from winning the presidency with a simple majority of the popular vote. This safeguards against the tyranny of the majority, ensuring that the rights....

The President of the United States
The winner of the 2024 presidential election will hold the title of President of the United States. This is the highest office in the federal government of the United States and is responsible for leading the executive branch of the government. The President is also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and has the power to veto legislation passed by Congress.
The President is elected by the Electoral College, which is composed of electors chosen by the voters in each state. The candidate who receives the majority of electoral votes wins the presidency. If no candidate....