FEDERALIST 10

• Main argument is concerning the “mischief of factions”

  • Factions: groups of people who believe their interests are more important than any other interests.

• If the majority always prevailed, then the minority would never be represented.

• If too many protections were provided for the minority, then the common good would never prevail.

• The solution is to create a republican style government.

  • With so many factions, they would have to debate and compromise in order to get any laws passed.

  • Majority rules and minority rights are upheld.

BRUTUS 1

• History had never seen a republican style government govern a population and land mass as large as the United States.

• The necessary and proper clause and supremacy clause of the Constitution would create a powerful central government and render state government unnecessary.

  • Thus squashing the interests of the states.

• If liberty was to be maintained, the Constitution with all its centralized power should not be ratified.