Remarks on 'The Federalist Number 10.' (Symposium: The Legacy of the Federalist Papers, the Eleventh Annual National Federalist Society Symposium on Law and Public Policy - 1992)

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Madison makes two important distinctions in 'The Federalist Number 10'; one is between interest and passion and the other is between the community's interest and other citizens' rights. Madison distinguishes between intermittent factions based on passion and more durable ones based on interest. He believes government should regulate interests while protecting the exercise of political passions. Justice, or protection of the rights of others, and the public good, or the community interest, are both regarded as fundamental objectives of government and as interdependent.

Criticism and interpretation, Pressure groups, Special interest groups, Madison, James

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Thoughts on the Federalist vision of representative democracy as viewed at the end of the twentieth century: how have we used the legacy of 'The Federalist Papers'?

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Recent events provide some reason to question the functionality of the current system of representative government in the US. Some troubling events include the Clarence Thomas nomination to the Supreme Court, the deception involved in the annual enactment of the federal budget and the inability to deal with problems such as energy before the crisis stage. Structural issues that need examination include congressional, presidential and judicial terms of office, campaign financing and the power of the media.

Representative government and representation, Representative government

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Anti-Federalists, 'The Federalist Papers,' and the big argument for union

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The Anti-Federalists favored localism over central control, were concerned with promoting citizen participation in government and mistrusted professional politicians. Although many of the Anti-Federalist predictions have been realized, the changes were gradual rather than immediate as they feared, many coming only after the Civil War. The strongest Federalist argument for union, one usually overlooked today, was to prevent the states from warring amongst themselves.

Constitutional history

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