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== "The extent of the Union gives it the most palpable advantage" == | == "The extent of the Union gives it the most palpable advantage" == | ||
* Madison argues that the advantages of a republic over a democracy are similar to those of a large over a small republic, those advantages being: | |||
** republics yield enlightened representatives who better attend the common good than the pure will of the people | |||
** large republics yield a larger pool of talent to draw from than small republics | |||
** democracies are subject to a majority faction | |||
** large republics have more and detached interests across their larger population and size (that will compete with each other) | |||
* Madison accepts the dangers of faction but states that the larger republic will offer "greater security" of the people's liberties (i.e., abuse by a dominant faction): | |||
** the larger Republic will produce "greater obstacles" to "concert" (joining and acting as one) of an "unjust and interested majority" | |||
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|<big>The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States. A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the Confederacy; but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it must secure the national councils against any danger from that source. A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.</big> | |<big>The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States. A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the Confederacy; but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it must secure the national councils against any danger from that source. A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.</big> | ||