The Federalist No. 51 was one of twenty-six articles written by James Madison from 1787 to 1788 in order to persuade the people of New York to ratify the Constitution. ... The central issue for Madison was how to minimize the risk of tyranny of a minority (dictatorship) as well as tyranny of the majority (over minorities). ...
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). ... Madison provides many examples of why we have a pluralist society in America, because the public interest is the sum of all group interests. ... Brandeis University's well known professor, Peter Woll, states that, "[Madison's] view that the natural diversity of interests would prevent particular groups from...
Ratifying the Constitution - Arguments for and Against People against the constitution were the Anti-Federalists. In 1787, several prominent Anti-Federalists published editorials in the New York Times under pen names such as Cato and Brutus. ... The Federalist Papers are a strong retort to the objections voiced against the fresh new Constitution. ... Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay wrote a series of 85 essays that appeared in New York newspapers. ... The Federalists won, of course. ...
Although the Articles introduced some policies and freedoms that the United States still enjoys today, leaders such as John Jay and James Madison criticized the work because it could not establish a strong government (Doc. ... With many of the problems of the Articles of Confederation being solved by the Anti-federalists through the production of the Bill of Rights under the Constitution of 1789, the Articles of Confederation were clearly the beginning of a democratic rule for the United States, but an ineffective one at that (Doc. ...
