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For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. This is one of those moments when people say they hate Washington. Actually, almost every moment is a moment when people say they hate Washington. GEORGE F. INSKEEP: George Will remains one of the nation's more prominent conservatives, having written newspaper columns for 40 years. What do you think of President Obama's argument that the Republican strategy here, which some Republicans have described as focusing on crisis points - what do you think of the president's argument that that's changing the constitutional arrangement somewhat, trying to make one part of one house dictate the terms? WILL: No. INSKEEP: You're shaking your head. WILL: This is the Madisonian scheme.
WILL: How does this short-circuit the system? INSKEEP: The president raised the possibility of a Democrat using the debt ceiling to impose gun control in the country. WILL: That is correct. WILL: Nope. Federalist No. 10. James Madison, author of Federalist No. 10 Federalist No. 10 (Federalist Number 10) is an essay written by James Madison and the tenth of the Federalist Papers, a series arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution.
It was published on November 22, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all of the Federalist Papers were published. Federalist No. 10 is among the most highly regarded of all American political writings.[1] No. 10 addresses the question of how to guard against "factions", or groups of citizens, with interests contrary to the rights of others or the interests of the whole community. Madison argued that a strong, big republic would be a better guard against those dangers than smaller republics—for instance, the individual states. Background[edit] Publication[edit] Republican Government: Cato, no. 3. Republican Government Document 16 Cato, no. 3 Fall 1787 Storing 2.6.12--20 The recital, or premises on which this new form of government is erected, declares a consolidation or union of all the thirteen parts, or states, into one great whole, under the firm [form?]
The governments of Europe have taken their limits and form from adventitious circumstances, and nothing can be argued on the motive of agreement from them; but these adventitious political principles, have nevertheless produced effects that have attracted the attention of philosophy, which has established axioms in the science of politics therefrom, as irrefragable as any in Euclid. The Federalist #84. Independent Journal Wednesday, July 16, Saturday, July 26, Saturday, August 9, 1788 [Alexander Hamilton] To the People of the State of New York: IN THE course of the foregoing review of the Constitution, I have taken notice of, and endeavored to answer most of the objections which have appeared against it.
There, however, remain a few which either did not fall naturally under any particular head or were forgotten in their proper places. These shall now be discussed; but as the subject has been drawn into great length, I shall so far consult brevity as to comprise all my observations on these miscellaneous points in a single paper. Anti-Federalist Papers: "John DeWitt" #2.
Massachusetts, October 27, 1787 To the Free Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In my last address upon the proceedings of the Federal Convention I endeavored to convince you of the importance of the subject, that it required a cool, dispassionate examination, and a thorough investigation, previous to its adoption -- that it was not a mere revision and amendment of our first Confederation, but a compleat System for the future government of the United States, and I may now add in preference to, and in exclusion of, all others heretofore adopted. -- It is not TEMPORARY, but in its nature, PERPETUAL. -- It is not designed that you shall be annually called, either to revise, correct, or renew it; but, that your posterity shall grow up under, and be governed by it, as well as ourselves. -- It is not so capable of alterations as you would at the first reading suppose; and I venture to assert, it never can be, unless by force of arms.
John DeWitt. The Federalist #10. Chronology of the Pro- and Anti-Federalist Papers.