Federalist Paper #10 8-28-12

The author of the federalist paper was James Madison. The paper was written in 1787. An the audience was federalist! The faction is one small group of 3-5 inside of a larger group! Some of the new factions today is like the cops there is like a sheriff of the county there is other cops that have different meanings that is a type of fiction. They couldn't use them the reason is that you have to have different types of groups an an they have to have a reason to be doing it.

 Democracy:

• Involves the government ruling and making laws for the "greater good" of all people, they may abolish personal rights in doing so.
• Democracy is government by and for the people. They may or may not be republics--that is, government limited by constitution or charter.
• The tricky part of "democracy" is defining "the people" and then deciding what counts as "by the people" and what counts as "for the people." In a sense, that could be considered the content of democratic practice.
• Citizens are expected to participate more actively in a democracy.

Republic:

• Involves the government using and abiding by the constitution heavily. Personal rights are respected and cannot be taken away. This helps to avoid tyranny and mobocracy the majority makes laws and governs by passion, prejudice, or impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
• Republics are the common and "standard" type of governments found today, not democracies, despite what many people (who may not know the definition of either) think.
• Just as democracies may or may not be republics, republics may or may not be democracies.