#extendthesphere — Public Fediverse posts
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James Madison wrote Federalist No. 10, published November 22, 1787, to defend the U.S. Constitution by arguing that a large republic could control factions better than small democracies.
Factions—defined as groups united by passion or interest adverse to others' rights—arise inevitably as a symptom of the human condition, property, and opinions.
Madison's key idea was to—#ExtendTheSphere—and expand the republic's size and population—to dilute factional dangers.
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@weilawei @jhavok
The last constitutional amendment came amidst a generational shift in power, values, and awareness of pluralism.Conventions are good practice that any wing of the representative republic could engage in.
Federation politics is a good Madisonian #FirstPrinciple praxis to #ExtendTheSphere
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It’s the Madisonian #FirstPrinciples of #ExtendTheSphere to make the system immune to collapse via factionalism.
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“Extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.”