A paradoxical tension arises that nature can only regulate by violating one of the principles, democratic or federalist. ... The Electoral College, even though it rightly neglects to give candidates with low amounts of support the presidency, completely undercuts the ability and right for a third candidate's public support to show in the electoral college (one federalist principle taking precedent over another federalist principle, both taking precedent over democratic principle). ... When democracy is having trouble being effective, the federalist principle should assist in its repair...

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James Madison begins his famous Federalist Paper 51 by explaining that the purpose of his essay is to help the readers understand how the structure of the proposed government makes liberty possible. Each branch should be, for the most part, in Madison's opinion, independent. To assure such independe...

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Federalist No. 10 by James Madison explains, "A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders have, in turn, divided mankind into parties" (Madison). ...

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Numerous events during and after the misnamed Era of Good Feelings "among them the neo-Federalist rulings of John Marshall's Supreme Court, the devastating effects of the panic of 1819, the launching of John Quincy Adams's and Henry Clay's American System "confirmed a growing impression that power was steadily flowing into the hands of a small, self-confident minority. ...

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