POLSCI 3VV3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: John Stuart Mill, Harm Principle
17 Jul 2018
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You can only have a proper republic if you have a general will for rousseau. (book 2, chapter 3) > the citizens had no communications with one another if there is no general will. The way to arrive at the general will is when the majority agree on something and you should not have them talk or think about it. Madison argues to convince those people that they can do the impossible, when he talks about faction he is appealing that his readers already knew. (page 89) > what removes faction on is by destroying the liberty and the other is by giving citizens the same interests, actions. Developmental republicanism is what brought faction, the problem is the diversity of men and to preserve people"s liberty. Difference in property substantial > (page 90) faction has less than a majority) if a faction is from a minority it will be voted down.
