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Federalist paper

James Madison is the one of the most important historic figure that stands behind the Constitution. Madison’s Federalists #10 is the most famous of the Federalists papers. The key idea of this work relates to the issue of factions in country that makes Madison to worry about public interests of society. He defines a faction as “ideas or economic interests at the expense of other citizens….”. He thinks that factions are inevitable because of human nature. Everybody have different amounts of wealth. Property is distributed unequally among members of society and this inequality is the main source of faction. What is a solution Madison offers for a problem of faction? He considers a representative form of government where the many elect the few who govern. He is sure that large country with more representatives chosen by a greater number of citizens reduces the possibility that member’s pf particular factions with own interests can win elections and then betray the interests of t...

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