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✧ James Madison ✧
James Madison (1751–1836) was a Founding Father of the United States and its fourth president, serving from March 4, 1809, to March 4, 1817. Dubbed the "Father of the Constitution" for his role in creating the U.S. Constitution, he had been dissatisfied with the weak government under the Articles of Confederation, an...
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James Madison (1751-1836) was a statesman, diplomat, and a Founding Father of the United States, who served as the fourth US president from 1809 to 1817. #History #JamesMadison #AmericanRevolution #FederalistPapers #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-23124-en/
6. This quote is important because Madison isn't just listing problems - he's setting up his larger argument in Federalist 10 about how the new American constitution could solve these traditional problems of democracy through a representative republic with checks and balances. #federalistpapers #jamesmadison #democracy
“The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.”
Madison, James. "Federalist No. 10." In The Federalist Papers. First published in The New York Packet, November 22, 1787.
For all you night owls out there - the new episode of Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers just dropped. Enjoy, and please share if you do. Thanks!
Federalist 2 - The Natural Advantages of Union, by John Jay
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There’s an old idea of fairness that when cutting a cake between two people one person cuts and the other picks the piece they want.
This method aligns the interests of both parties, no matter how corruptible and human they may be.
I think it’s underappreciated how often the US government design has a similar method in its checks and balances: one group can reject an official, but they don’t get to choose the replacement.
See, for example, impeachment proceedings.
After all: “This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public.”
–Hamilton (maybe)
the chief demagogue is at it again...
now he lets his votaries vote on how they feel about us budget spending.
it is quite ironic that those currents of us-american politics, that glorify -the founding fathers®- the most are those who are about to do all and everything the federalist papers were warning/worried about. #publius
