... is a violent animal who likes conflict, and suggests in both essays that the only way to solve these factions is to allow for a society where many of them form such that they limit each other's powers. Madison's thoughts on separation of government and the formation of a large republic were ahead of his time. Many thinkers of his era believed that the perfect society was a small republic ... providing a limitation on how much power the office could wield. The fundamental reason for this safeguard is quite banal, that men abuse power, and a good example is the very existence of governmen...

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