Madison's major points are made in Federalist Papers ten and fifty-one. Madison's main concern in Federalist Paper number ten is that the Constitution provides the people with a government that protects them against factions. ... Federalist Paper number fifty-one stresses that there is a need for checks and balances between the diverse departments of the government: executive, legislative, and judicial. ... Madison ends his paper with the idea that a larger society is more likely to prosper by self-government. ... Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Papers, for example, was hi...

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Repeatedly in history, countries fall into this pattern after a certain faction of the population seizes complete power in the government. ... The Federalist Papers were written in an attempt to "sell" the Founding Fathers" new form of government to the American citizens. ... In Federalist Paper No. 46, Madison praises the Constitution for "preserving the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over people of almost every other nation" (Madison 46). ... Hamilton conveys his views that an armed citizenry was the best and only real defense against a standing army in Federalist Paper No....

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On the other hand there were Federalists who were afraid of weak central government. After a Shaye's rebellion federalists opposed to the fact that people should have all the power. ... Beard stated that faction divided society in 2 economic classes. ... As Hamilton has it in Federalists Papers and in Constitution. ... Forrest McDonald in the Document number 6 states that " fully forth of the delegates in the convention voted in their state legislature for paper-money and debtor relief laws. ...

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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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