... law in the United States. It provides the framework for the government. After the constitution, the Federalist papers were created, works to ratify this constitution. In particular, Federalist papers #10 and #51, James Madison makes bold arguments and comments about the framing of the constitution. In both of these papers he discusses the subject of a large republic and factions as well as the separation of powers ... then we'd end up with a landowner states rights type faction and the sort of northern abolitionist type faction that will eventually split the country apart. In Federalist...

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