1. Who wrote Federalist 10? When? To whom?

2. According to the author, what has been a dangerous vice in popular governments?

3. What is a faction?

4. What two methods are there in controlling factions?

5. What two methods does the author suggest can be used to remove the causes of factions? What conclusion is drawn regarding the removal of causes?

6. How can you control the effects of a majority faction? Minority faction?

7. Why is a Republic more apt to control the effects of faction than a pure Democracy?

8. What is the difference between a Republic and a Democracy?

9. Why does Madison argue that a large Republic is better than a small Republic?

10. Has history proven Madison to be right or wrong? Would the trend toward hyper-democracy trouble Madison?

1. Federalist No. 10 is an essay written by James Madison as the tenth of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays initiated by Alexander Hamilton arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution.

2. Instability, injustice, and confusion--have been mortal diseases

How effective does Madison think the new American Constitution will be

3. A group of people with similar interest that work against the common good

4. removing it's cause

controlling the effects of the mischief of factions

5a. removing liberty

giving every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and same interests

5b. You can't destroy liberty because it is the cause of factions; it is essential to life--political life

6a. By controlling their effects

6b. It can be defeated by vote ... It will oppress minorities

7. A republic is a government by elected leaders, and is better because these leaders should possess better judgement, also, passions will be filtered through a legislator.

8. A republic is more suitable than a pure democracy

1. A republic delegates the chores of government to a small number of elected citizens

2. A republic includes a greater number of citizens and a large geographical area.

What are the benefits when there is a "delegation of the government to a small number of citizens?"

9. The more people you have, the greater the variety of opinion ... they make it harder to form an oppressive majority