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Madison's "Federalist #10" left me pretty confused because of the way it was worded. He says, "...which were echoed from one end of the continent to the other," but does he actually mean the literal words? When he refers to the continent does he just mean the United States or does he actually mean all the US and whatever is west of it, like the territories and Indian lands? | Madison's "Federalist #10" left me pretty confused because of the way it was worded. He says, "...which were echoed from one end of the continent to the other," but does he actually mean the literal words? When he refers to the continent does he just mean the United States or does he actually mean all the US and whatever is west of it, like the territories and Indian lands? | ||
-Ally Campo | -Ally Campo | ||
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| + | In this piece, Madison makes a very insightful claim about what he views as a characteristic in the nature man. "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society." As it turns out, this statement rang true far beyond his years in the context of AMERICAN society, with the formation of worker's unions, associations of every sort, political action groups, etc. etc, factions shaped the face of this nation. But I would ask, is this truly a characteristic of human nature, or simply a characteristic that has come to be true of American society? On what support would he have formed this notion? Do you believe he is correct? | ||
| + | -Adam Shlossman | ||
== Mercy Otis Warren, Observations on the New Constitution, 1788 == | == Mercy Otis Warren, Observations on the New Constitution, 1788 == | ||
