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Archive of posts published in the tag: Federalist #10

The Need to Say ‘No’

Jan. 16, 2021

What distinguishes a republic from a democracy is recognition of the need to say ‘no’ to the majority every now and then.

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Will Liberty Control Factions ?

Oct. 14, 2016

from Roger Kimball at The Wall Street Journal. Since Men Aren’t Angels: Madison, Hamilton and other supporters of the Constitution worried about the potential incursions of federal power just as much as did the anti-Federalists, who opposed adopting the Constitution

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The Stability of Minority Rights

Sep. 17, 2016

“The modern undergraduate assigned The Federalist Papers usually makes the reasonable assumption that faction is dangerous because political fragmentation and contentiousness are to be avoided. The real point of Federalist 10 is counterintuitive: Republicanism is imperiled when society is not

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