... small rural communities. It was John Adams and other fellow Bostonians who called for the citizens to rise up and defend their liberty. To rally up this idea they took a couple notes from Algernon Sidney; Sidney stated that, "In a popular or mixed government the body of the people is the publick defense, and every man is arm'd and disciplin'd." What Sidney basically mentions ... in the quote is that we as American citizens are to be in charge of defending and ... themselves rather than have to wait for a long time for the federal army to arrive.The debate between the Federalist and Non...

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... to form into factions or parties, it may just be inevitable that politics are a major player in a democratic system from the local level up and through the national level. Madison writes in The Federalist 10 Papers, "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to ... insignificant compared with the extravagance, corruption, and mismanagement which mark the administrations of most of the great cities. In New York they have revealed themselves on the largest scale."(Bryce 608) Bryce was a...

• Word Count: 1919
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate