LAWS 2502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Direct Democracy, Federalist No. 10
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Rousseau: imagines the modern political community as small. No groups before we create a political community because we are in the state of nature. On one hand we have direct democracy and on the other we have slow transportation. One institutional solution is to forget about direct democracy. Madison and hamilton: something wrong with small-scale community and small is ugly when it comes to democratic decision-making. 1787 after they started working on a new constitution. Series of rebellions who were x military who were not paid for their service. Thus they were not able to pay their taxes and local courts started foreclosing on them. So they started a group and started to take over the courts. Madison says both groups, tone of the ex military people and one of the bankers and investors are both just factions. Aim was to perused the people of new york to ratify the constitution.
