The Federalist No. 10 In the paper The Federalist No. 10, James Madison gives his arguments for a Republic government and reasons why he is against a pure Democracy. ... The main problem with a pure Democracy was the formations of powerful factions. ... Madison believed that it is the nature of man to create factions. ... To Madison, there are only two ways to control a faction: to remove its causes or to control its effects. ... This type of a pure democracy would never be able to control factions because the majority faction would always prevail, and there would be no way to protect mi...

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Milkis Paper The Constitution of the United States makes no mention of political parties, yet parties began to form shortly after its ratification. ... Party competition first emerged, when James Madison and Thomas Jefferson sought to create a political opposition to Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and the Federalists. Madison who originally had been the leading federalist in the country became the leader of a more antifederalist Jeffersonian Republican party who embraced parties and factions in order to protect and preserve the future of federalism and the separation of powers. ...

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Of course if arguments were finished after one side makes a bold declaration on a piece of paper that would be quite a different history but the war waged on until 1783. ... But the gaps needed to be addressed and were backburnered until shortly before 1787 when it was decided that a more comprehensive form of national government needed to be formalized on paper, which after much delegation and compromise (between plans proposed by Virginia and New Jersey) was manifested as the "Constitution of the United States of America" later that year, and signed September 17th, 1787. ... Many people fe...

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