Federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Most famous is Federalist 10
- Factions have always existed and are necessary for people to have choice
- Concerned about violent factions like the KKK
- Only want what is good for their faction
- Discusses how factions are essential for liberty
- Can’t be removed, but must be controlled
- Solution is to have a large republic that will control the effects of factions
- In a direct democracy, a faction could become a majority and take control
- Opinions have to pass through a moderating effect from representatives
- Madison wants a strong participatory model of democracy
- If you expand the country over different environments you will have different cultures
- Natural enemies and factions that oppose each other
- Federalist 51
- Checks and balances and separation of powers
- ambition must be made to counteract ambition
- We need to be wary of ambitious politicians and create a system that limits their powers and ambitions
- Done through power limitation
- Government must be enabled to control the governed
- Precautions must be taken to prevent tyranny
- Argues for federalism
- Brutus 1
- Consolidation of power in the federal government
- Necessary and Proper clause
- Supremacy clause
- Antifederalist 9
- Satires the government for being too aristocratical and elite
- Senate was chosen by state legislature