Federalist 10 | BRI’s Primary Source Essentials
How did Federalist 10 allow the Founders to create a Constitution with a stable and lasting form of government? In this rapid-fire episode of BRI’s Primary Source Essentials and Federalist 10 summary, learn the arguments from James Madison, who wrote Federalist 10. Discover why the Federalists believed a large republic was key to the Constitution and other Federalist 10 main points.
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0:00 Welcome to primary source essentials. On this episode, we will briefly discuss Federalist 10. The Federal essays were written by those who defended the Constitution against Anti-Federalist critics. Now, the opponents pointed out that Enlightenment thinkers such as Montesquieu believe that republican
0:22 government could only work in small, all republics. Madison wrote Federalist 10, arguing that a larger public was indeed possible, responding to Anti-Federalist Brutus 1 that it was impossible and failed to provide adequate representation. Now, in this essay, Madison argued that people formed
0:46 into factions or groups because of their self interest and passions such as money, property, religion and factions often led to injustice and harm the public good. Now, he was not worried about minority factions since they would be defeated by majority rule.
1:06 But Madison was concerned about majority factions. He argued that our large republic offered a solution. In a large republic, he thought there. Were, as he wrote, a multiplicity of. Interest, or that there were so many contending factions that they would cancel each other out to preserve liberty, justice and the public good.
1:30 Now, a larger public had representatives who. As he wrote, would refine and enlarge the differing local viewpoints in the country. Madison thus offered a new way of. Thinking about republican government and engaged in what was called the new science of politics for how the framers
1:51 would create a constitutional republic that would endure this new, stronger government protected liberty and justice far more than the one that had existed under the more state dominated Articles of Confederation. So thanks for watching, and check out our other videos in Primary Source Essentials.
