POLSCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Agrarian Justice, Usufruct, Hunter-Gatherer
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Paine shared a dilemma with the federalists - remember what that dilemma was. Answer: how does pain resolve the federalists dilemma. Cash grants to 21 year old men. Extend the republic, draw in a much larger range in interests and beliefs and you will not have people organizing into two groups: the rich vs the poor. Extended republic (to exploit the logic of collective action to ensure that. Representative government (as a bulwark against democracy) There are so many of them, so different, so isolated, that it"s hard for them to organize. Unless they can organize, the most numerous party is not the more powerful. Federalists #10 is written in the idea that the most populous is the most powerful. The more that you are and the more spread out you are, the more costly it is for you to organize. The federalists exploited the logic of collective action, by complicated conflict. Paine"s answer: a social welfare system that.
