... . 10 In the paper The Federalist No. 10, James Madison gives his arguments for a Republic government and reasons why he is against a pure Democracy. Madison supports the Constitution ... claims that destroying liberty is a "cure worse then the disease itself." The government that the Constitution creates would be able to control the damage caused by factions without removing the liberties of its people. The Constitution had established a representative government in which many voted and a few actually govern. This form of ... a pure democracy in which all members of a society directly pa...

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To Madison, there are only two ways to control a faction. First is to remove the causes and the second to control the effects. The first is impossible because the two ways to remove the causes of a faction: destroy liberty or give every citizen the same opinions, passions, and interests. Destroying liberty is a "cure worse then the disease itself," and the second is impracticable. The causes of factions are thus part of the nature of man and we must deal with their effects and accept their existence. The government created by the Constitution controls the damage caused by such factions. The fr...

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