Federalist Papers
According to the Constitution of the United States, this nation was founded under the principles of individual freedom and individual voice. America was designed to be a representative government by and for the people; a direct opposite of what the people had experienced when America was a British colony with no say in their government. If this was indeed to be a representative government, why then did the Founding Fathers put so much distrust into the American populous? Many of the processes of government in this nation are designed so that the influence of government people can interfere with the desires of the nation at large. The only logical explanation for this discrepancy is that the Founding Fathers believed in the principles of representative government but did not have faith that the citizens of the United States could make the proper decisions about policy.

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Works Cited:

Madison, James. (1787). "The Federalist No. 10: The Utility as a Safeguard Against Domestic

Faction and Insurrection." Daily Advertiser.

Madison, James. (1788). "The Federalist No. 51: The Structure of the Government Must Furnish

the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments." Independent Journal.

I do not believe his rationale, which stuck to the letter of the law was what the spirit of the writers of the laws of the United States had in mind. I believe that Dred Scott was a person and should have been treated as one and not merely as property. He was free, and went to St. Louis as a free man even voluntary. If he had stayed in Minnesota this case would probably never had been an issue, however I am sure Dred Scott considered himself a free man. In the end though, it did not matter what he considered himself, because he was ruled not even to be a citizen. Furthermore Chief Justice Taney went too far in ruling the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, as it seems he was almost on a vendetta to increase the spread of slavery and hurt slave rights. But then again, to…...

Thus, if liberty encourages factions, the Constitution uses factions to its benefit. Ultimately, the group of Americans who sought independence from Great Britain could be seen as a dangerous faction, especially by those Americans who did not want to split from their mother country. And so, the legislation they created, including the Declaration of Independence could be seen as documents resulting from a faction. While the Constitution attempted to limit factions, those who wrote it certainly constituted a faction, as they were simply a few who represented many. In addition, the southern membership could be called a faction, as they managed to keep any reference to slavery out of the Constitution, amounting to a vicious and dangerous omission that would later lead to Civil War. As Madison notes in the paper, "And what are the different classes of legislators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine?" (Madison).…...

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References

Madison, James. "Federalist Paper Number 10." Constitution.org. 2007. 5 March 2007.  http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm

Federalist Papers, which was initially known as the Federalist, were originally published on October 27, 1787. The first publication of these papers was made in New York press under the title The Federalist, which was later renamed The Federalist Papers in the 20th Century. Generally, The Federalist Papers is a term that refers to a group of 85 articles that were published by various authors including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. They are largely regarded as one of the most significant contributions to the political mindset and process made in the United States ("The Federalist Papers," n.d.). Most of the papers appeared in the form of books in 1788 with an introduction being written by Alexander Hamilton. They were later printed in various editions and translated to various languages and utilized "Publius," a pseudonym for the three men i.e. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay.
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References

Kelly, M. (n.d.). Why Did the Articles of Confederation Fail? Retrieved January 13, 2015, from  http://americanhistory.about.com/od/governmentandpolitics/f/articles_of_confederation_fails.htm 

Peacock, A.A. (n.d.). The Federalist Papers. Retrieved January 13, 2015, from  http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/the-federalist-papers 

"The Federalist Papers." (n.d.). American History -- From Revolution to Reconstruction and Beyond. Retrieved January 13, 2015, from  http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1786-1800/the-federalist-papers/

authors of the Federalist Papers take for granted that human motives arise from 3 sources: passion, interest and virtue. heir goals regarding the 3 are, PASSION; (1) to prevent passions from being aroused, (2) to keep already aroused passions from having civically harmful effects. INERES; (3) to encourage the development of useful interests, (4) channel interests that already exist in civically useful directions. VIRUE; (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. herefore, this paper is prepared using the definitions of Federalist paper no. 10.

(1) o prevent passions from being aroused

Madison dictates that human being naturally has…...

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The republican government with enough number of representatives can control the damages of individual interest. Moreover, it can anticipate the development of interests such as nation. Madison also points out the virtue are very important for public good along. Therefore, the time and the virtue are necessary for people to devote themselves to the public good and the glory of the nation.

(1)Martin Diamond, As Far as Republican Principles Will Admit, ed. William A. Schambra (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1992), pp. 344 -- 345.

(2) Antony Peacock, How To Read The Federalist Papers, The Heritage Foundation, 2010

Federalist papers sought to inspire a nation to generate a sense of identity and freedom not just from the British government and British identity, but also from the notion that the American government is flawed and ineffective. Several federalist papers in particular, discuss how the government should be as well as help deal with some of the fears and desires of the American public. The Federalist papers that will be examined are: 21, 31, 37, and 51. They discuss truths and principles as well as formation of union and preservation of rights and liberties, along with strategies and approaches to constructing effective government and rule. There are several themes expressed in the entirety of the Federalist papers. In examining these themes, it will help better understand the chosen Federalist papers that highlight these themes in depth.
Energy is one of the major themes and became a primary objective of the…...

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Works Cited

Bingham, Lisa Blomgren, and Rosemary O'Leary. 'Federalist No. 51: Is The Past Relevant To Today's Collaborative Public Management?' Public Administration Review 71.s1 (2011): 78 -- 82. Print.

Hamilton, Alexander et al. Selected Federalist Papers. 1st ed. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2001. Print.

Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist Papers. 1st ed. New York: Cosimo Classics, 2006. Print.

Madison's Federalist Paper
One of the central concerns of James Madison in his delineation of what constitutes a political or social faction in American politics is that the new, developing nation not become dominated by such alliances of individuals or factions. For Madison, factions are the antithesis of a fair and free government. Madison stated that in a new and potentially democratic nation such as the United States hoped to be, rather than the will of a tyrant, powerful interest groups could ban together and create factions that acted as voices that dominated the legislature. Thus rather than reasoned voices of governors, factions could become the new 'tyrants.' The only solutions to the dominance of factionalism were the legal protections and structures of governance, according to Madison's Federalist Paper 10.

Factions have their roots in human being's desires to associate in groups with common interests. However, this made it all the more…...

While 10 may be the most important paper, 51 is the one that is still most often cited.
The differences between the two papers are easy to spot. Ten talks about something that plagues the government and political parties today, and Madison's ideas about how to avoid those problems was largely ignored in the Constitution. The political parties did not exist at first, but they started up rather quickly, and there were contentions between them from the start. Fifty-one, on the other hand, advocates separation of power between the elements of government, and those separations are still largely in place, which can keep one faction of government from growing too powerful and influential. Thus, the ideas of 51 were used and are still in use, while those of 10 were not, and the country may be suffering as a result. The Bush Administration has tried to overthrow some of the…...

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…...

James MadisonPersonal BackgroundJames Madison was born on March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia. He grew up in a wealthy family, with his father, James Madison Sr., being the largest landowner in Orange County and a prominent planter. Madison was educated at home and at a boarding school before attending the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), where he completed his studies in 1771. He was known for his diligence and thoroughness in his studies (Cost, 2021).1787 Constitutional ConventionMadison played a crucial role in the events leading up to the Constitutional Convention, mainly through his work in the Virginia Assembly and his collaboration with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay in writing the Federalist Papers. They were the ones who pushed hard for the adoption of the Constitution (National Archives, 2023). Madison also gave many speeches on the floor and pushed for a strong national government (National Archives). His work…...

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ReferencesBroadwater, J. (2019). Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution. UNC Press Books.Cost, J. (2021). James Madison: America\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s First Politician. Basic Books.National Archives. (2023). Retrieved from   https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/founding-fathers-virginia#madison 

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.

Project Title: Ratifying the U.S. Constitution I chose this topic because I feel that our country went from being a loose union of individual states to being a nation with a central government when the Constitution was ratified. This was more important than the War for Independence, because it dictated the type of government we would have. The Federalists, led by Hamilton, wanted a strong central government. The Anti-Federalists wanted every state to be its own government. The guiding question for me is: Should the U.S. have ratified the Constitution or stayed a loose confederation?
I found most of my research online, using Google to help me with my web browsing. For primary sources, I was able to locate all the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers at Constitution.org and Yale.edu. This gave me a sense of what the actual debate was about at the time. For modern day perspective, I found an interesting…...

Federalist Relevance
Madison's Relevance Today: Modern Echoes of Federalist No.

The Federalist Papers penned by James Madison, John Jay, and others in defense of the Constitution during the hotly contested period of its ratification remain some of the most significant documents in American political history to this date. Detailing the arguments of some of the men who helped to frame and influence the composition of the foundational body of laws and structure of government of what is now the most powerful nation on Earth, reading the Federalist Papers is akin to reading the minds of those that have helped to shape global politics and political ideals. At the same time, the fact that so many of the arguments made in these documents are now foregone conclusions, and that the rights and reasons invoked (not to mention the language in which they are invoked) seem so antiquated can make the Federalist Papers appear…...

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Works Cited

Holdorf, William. The Fruad of Seat Belt Laws. Accessed 7 May 2012.  http://www.thefreemanonline.org/features/the-fraud-of-seat-belt-laws/ 

Madison, James. Federalist No. 10. 1787. Accessed 7 May 2012.  http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm 

McCormack, John. PPP Poll: 33% of Voters Say Gay Marriage Should be Legal, 57% Say It Should Be Illegal. Accessed 7 May 2012.  http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ppp-poll-33-voters-say-gay-marriage-should-be-legal-57-say-it-should-be-illegal 

NARLA. (2012). Politicization: A New Era for Women's Bodies. 2012. Accessed 7 May 2012.  http://prochoicenc.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/politicization-a-new-era-for-womens-bodies/

Federalists
Although it is now a ripe 65 years old, Leonard D. White's 1948 publication The Federalists remains highly relevant to studies of American history, politics, and governance. The Federalists is a seminal tome, and a benchmark with which to judge and evaluate subsequent writing on the subject of American public administration and its political and historical context. When it was published, reviewers were already calling the book "the first installment of what may already be called the definitive history of American public administration," (Hart, 1948, p. 703). As definitive as it was in 1948, the Federalists has been unsurpassed in the exact subject and content that Leonard White addressed. The language, packaging, and overall feel of the book might give away its age, but its endurance is due to more important matters such as erudite scholarship, reliance on primary sources, and unrelenting thoroughness.

One of the most enduring aspects of The…...

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References

Gaus, J.M. (1948). American administrative history: Review of The Federalists. Public Administration Review 8(4): 289-292.

Hart, J. (1948). Book reviews: The Federalists. Retrieved online:  http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2383&context=lcp 

John, R.R. (1996). In Retrospect: Leonard D. White and the Invention of American Administrative History. Reviews in American History 24(2): 344-360.

Roberts, A. (2009). The path not taken. Public Administration Review 69(4): 764-775.

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....

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....

Ideological Differences between Federalists and Anti-Federalists
The Federalists and Anti-Federalists were two opposing political factions that emerged during the debate over the ratification of the United States Constitution. Their distinct ideologies shaped the contours of the American constitution.
Federalists
Strong National Government: Federalists believed in a robust central government with ample authority to regulate interstate commerce, raise taxes, and defend the nation.
Checks and Balances: They supported a system of checks and balances among the three branches of government to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
Limited Popular Sovereignty: While Federalists acknowledged the importance of popular representation, they also feared....