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GOVT 2301
Federalist #10 and the Republicanism
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In the previous section we looked over the nature of Constitutions
and analyzed the broad design of the United States and Texas Constitutions, as well as the
alleged failures of the Articles of Confederation.
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This week we begin a series of lectures designed to dig deeper
into specific design features within each document, primarily the United States Constitution.
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We will look separately at these four principles:
RepublicanismSeparated PowersIndividual Liberty
Federalism
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This week: Republicanism
In other words: Indirect Democracy
or Representative Democracy
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For a reminder: What is a Republic Again?
A republic is a type of government where the citizens choose the
leaders of their country and the people (or at least a part of its people) have an impact on its
government. -Wikipedia
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More specifically, it means that the preferences of the general population are
filtered through representative institutions.
Try to memorize the “filter” as an analogy. In brief, a republic attempts to filter out
short-term, unstable, radical ideas in order to ensure that the actions of government
reflect long term, stable concerns.
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As we will see, the principle concern by the framers of the Constitution was that
powerful, permanent majorities would be able to control all aspects of governing
power, become tyrannical, and disregard the rights of the majority.
In short: a republic is argued to be better able to prevent the tyranny of the majority
.
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In a republic, people do not rule directly, as in the
Athenian democracy, rather they do so though elected
representatives.
Read Pericles on Athenian Democracy here.
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We will consider this topic by reading through Federalist #10 which argues
that the Constitution successfully limit the dangers posed by factions motivated by personal, narrow
interests, not the overall interests of the nation. It does so by filtering their
preferences through a legislative system that will break apart majority
factions.
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Please note that I expect you read through Federalist #10 and be
prepared to answer a handful of questions regarding its text.
TextWikipedia
GradeSaverSparkNotes
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A faction, as the term was used by Madison, is similar to what we would
call today interest (or advocacy) groups.
As we will see, the Constitution is designed in part to impact how groups
form in the nation and how capable those groups are to creating
instability.
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Consequently, this allows us to take an early look at interest
groups, what they are, how they form, and how they are – or are
not – effective.
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At root, this section concerns a conflict that exists between the concept of popular sovereignty
and democracy.
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While we know from our discussion of natural rights that a
government must rest on the people, history tells us that the people can provide an unstable
basis for government.
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Classical authors argued that democracies inevitably turned
chaotic and out the chaos emerged a tyranny that would keep the
peace. Read criticism of the Athenian democracy here.
The Framers of the Constitution were aware of these arguments.
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The democratic system was believed to be the reason Greece
was defeated in the Peloponnesian War.
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A democratic assembly was also responsible for the
execution of Socrates.
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They were also aware that being wealthy property owners, they
were in a minority.
A democratic majority could take their property, which they saw as a
violation of their unalienable rights.
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Recall the tension between majority rule and minority rights.
In a democracy the nature of minority rights can be defined by
the majority.
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The real problem, as they saw it, lied in human nature.
As we will see later, Madison thought we far more likely to “vex and oppress” each other than to
cooperate. This would be fatal in a direct democracy, but manageable
in an indirect democracy.
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A tyrannical system can suppress divisions in society because they
are powerful and ruthless enough to eradicate them.
Stalin dealt with opposition groups by killing them.
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That’s one way to solve the problem.
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Democracies, which naturally require a degree of individual
freedom, allow these divisions to take center stage and lead to
conflict. Utter chaos – civil wars – can lead some to conclude that a tyrannical leader is preferable to
random violence.
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This was Thomas Hobbes conclusion in The Leviathan,
written during the British Civil Wars.
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Democracy can lead to tyranny.
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The word “democracy” therefore wasn’t a compliment.
Think about how people use the term “socialism” today, it was
similar.
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The goal of the U.S. Constitution is to maintain popular rule, to ensure
that it did not crumble into tyranny.
The question was how.
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Madison would argue that the answer to these problems was in
designing a “well-constructed union.”
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This would involve creating a republic with strong independent
but accountable legislative institutions that rest between the
people and the law.
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So while it is true that the U.S. is a democracy, the democratic design is such that the electorate has a no capacity to instantaneously change
policy.
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While the Preamble begins with “We the People,” much of the
remainder of the U.S. Constitution protects government from the
people.
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That is what a republic does.
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Before we continue, let’s recall what “democracy” means.
It means, in Greek, rule of the people, and as is practiced today has three main components. We
introduced these previously.
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1 - Universal Adult Suffrage
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2 - Majority Rule
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3 - Minority Rights
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Obviously we can question whether the U.S. qualified as a democracy at
that point given restrictions on suffrage.
We discuss these in the section on elections. For now it is important to know that restricted suffrage was a deliberate choice by the framers.
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The framers of the Constitution were worried about the
excesses of democracy, and sought instead to limit the direct impact of the population, while still retaining the basic democratic framework.
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“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.” –
Elbridge Gerry
He was referring to the problems the nations was allegedly suffering
from under the Articles of Confederation.
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From the Constitutional Convention:
Mr. HAMILTON. This question has already been considered in several points of view.
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found
in despotism nor the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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The people who attended the Constitutional Convention believed that the policies proposed by the
democratic legislatures in the states were harmful to the future
stability of the union.
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The legislatures were, for example, debasing currency to allow for easier payments of debt even
though this policy, in their opinion, harmed long term economic
development.
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James Madison would mention these specifically in the latter parts
of Federalist #10.
Paper MoneyThe Abolition of Debts
Redistribution of Property
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In a republic, a variety of institutions lay between the
population and the formulation, implementation and adjudication of the law. Collectively these are supposed to limit efforts to harm
the minority.
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On the national level this includes:
A Bicameral CongressA Singular Executive
An Appointed Judiciary
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These are established in the first three articles of the U.S.
Constitution ,and they are structured in such a way to be
independent of each other.
This introduces a topic we will cover more thoroughly in the next section.
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Each institution is put in office through a separate process, which
insulates them in different ways from the national electorate
House – the peopleSenate – the states
President – the electoral collegeCourts - appointment
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And each institution has a different term length, which also insulates it
from the national electorate:
House – 2 yearsSenate – 6 years
President – 4 yearsCourts - Lifetime
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The longer the term, the greater the insulation. (Think about this like the length of a dog’s leash.)
The Anti-Federalists wanted the shortest terms possible – yearly if
possible.
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The fact that only one third of the Senate is up for election every two years shields that institution from
ever being subject to the immediate preferences of the
electorate.
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The fact that the federal courts serve for life, in addition to being appointed, means that they never
face the electorate.
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The U.S. Constitution is full of factors which place distance
between governing institutions and the people.
Jacksonian Democracy stood opposed to this.
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As we already know, the Texas Constitution was influenced by the
Jacksonian movement.
Texas’ government has a similar structure, though the institutions are more closely tied to the Texas
electorate
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All institutions are elected, meaning that they are all subject
to the preferences of the majority.
Question: does this makes tyranny of the majority more likely at the state level than the national? We
will explore this later.
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Terms lengths tend to be shorter in Texas than in the US
Texas House – 2 yearsTexas Senate – 4 years
Texas Governor – 4 yearsTexas Judiciary – 6 years
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Only one half of the Texas Senate is up for reelection every two
years.
The Texas Judiciary is elected, not appointed, but serves staggered six
year terms.
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As a consequence, the people do not rule, rather they elect
representatives to rule for them and then have the periodic
opportunity to replace or retain them.
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This raises a question about what “popular sovereignty” actually means. Are the people always
sovereign, or is their sovereignty limited to the decisions they make
in periodic elections?
This issue was brought up before in the introductory slides.
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Again, while the people are indeed sovereign, the range of their
power is limited. As we will see when we read through Fed #10,
the Constitutional system is designed to convert all interest
into minority interests.
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This checks the power of the majority power.
Think of republicanism as a check on the power of the people.
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Again, we explore this issue by reading through one of the more
influential of the Federalist Papers
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Federalist #10
The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic
Faction and Insurrection
- written by James Madison
- wikipedia.
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The Text of Fed #10Wikipedia: Fed #10
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James Madison wrote Fed 10 and argued that the “well constructed union” created in the Philadelphia
Convention would prevent the United States from falling prey to
one of the consequences of democratic government.
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Democracies, historically, have been unstable, violent, and short
lived. Majorities are able to oppress minorities. Policy can shift radically based on shifts in popular
sentiment.
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Although people must be free to participate politically, the general
public must be unable to destabilize government. Majorities must be unable to undermine the
rights of the minority.
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How can this be best done?
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Why does Madison care?
The wealthy are a minority and in a democracy their property may be subject to redistribution and the
money owed them might be subject to being forgiven.
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A similar sentiment would be expressed by the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist
Association in 1801 in a letter to Jefferson.
They were concerned that the laws of Connecticut at the time placed them, as a
minority, in a position where their religious liberty would be determined by the
majority.
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“what religious privileges we enjoy (as a minor part of the state) we
enjoy as favors granted, and not as inalienable rights; and these favors we receive at the expense of such degrading acknowledgements as are inconsistent with the rights of
freemen.”
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They wondered if Jefferson believed that their freedom to
worship as they choose would be protected. Jefferson responded in his letter stating he believed that the First Amendment created a “
wall of separation” between church and state.
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Here is a basic outline of the argument in Federalist #10.
It should not substitute a full reading of the document itself.
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He begins with a statement of the problem:
Factions have always destroyed democracies. Groups form with interest opposed to others or to
the overall interests of the people.
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“By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of
passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the
permanent and aggregate interests of the community.” - Madison
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Think of factions as interest groups, what we would call today,
special interests.
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Factions can be dealt with by focusing on causes or effects
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By focusing on the causes we can prevent factions from developing.
By focusing on the effects we allow factions to form but ensure that they cannot do damage to the
republic.
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There are two principle causes of factions:
FreedomDiversity
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Freedom allows people the right to form into groups and participate
politically
Diversity refers to fact that people are different in their ability to process information and in the
nature of their interests.
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But the elimination of freedom is worse than the disease.
Freedom is essential.
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The right to form factions would later be made clear in the First
Amendment.
Congress shall make no law …. Abridging the right of the people
to peacefully assemble and petition government for a redress
of grievances.
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Diversity is inevitable in a free society.
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It is impossible to make people the same. We are naturally diverse. It
is in our nature to form into groups based on our self interest and
come into conflict with others with opposing interests.
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1 - People reason in different, often incorrect ways and tend to
grow attached to their ideas.
2 – Various interests evolve in a civilized society and groups evolve
around those interests
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Plus:
It is in our nature to “vex and oppress each other” and not to
cooperate for the common good.
We are self-interested by nature.
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The conclusion:
The causes of faction cannot be removed. Their impact can only be
addressed by focusing on their effects.
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This is a crucial point. Human nature is written into the
constitutional order. It is accepted and compensated for. We will see this again when we read through
Federalist #51 and discuss ambition.
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So here is the question: How can factions be allowed to exist, but
not allowed to undermine stability? By focusing on their
effects, not causes.
How can freedom not undermine stability?
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“To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of
such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the
form of popular government, is then the great object to which our
inquiries are directed.”
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He begins to address this question by pointing out that there are two
types of factions:
MinorityMajority
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The minority faction (which is les than 50% of the population) can be
checked, in a democracy, by the majority which can defeat them by
vote.
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“If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the
republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views
by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the
society; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under
the forms of the Constitution.”
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The minority can pose problems for society, but it cannot become
tyrannical.
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Bu the majority faction can become tyrannical. It can
dominate elections and use government offices to abuse
minorities.
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“When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular
Government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling
passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other
citizens.”
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So that’s the danger – the majority.
He focuses the bulk of his attention on this.
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Tyranny of the Majority
A democracy can become tyrannical. I have repeated this
point and will continue to do so.
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His principle insight: In order for the majority to successfully act
against the minority, it has to have:
Impulse and Opportunity
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Impulse: A common feeling to act against an unpopular group.
Opportunity: The means to act on that feeling.
If they intersect – the majority can do anything.
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Madison argues that impulse and opportunity coincide in a direct
democracy where people can meet in person, make quick decisions
and implement them immediately.
Think about the Salem Witch Trials or lynchings.
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“If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to
coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives
can be relied on as an adequate control.”
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Passion will translate immediately into legislation, and will be implemented immediately.
This is why democracies are dangerous. They can be subject to
the preferences of violent, passionate majorities.
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Pure democracies can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction
since there is no barrier between the individual and the law.
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A republic – an indirect democracy - can provide the solution to this problem. A country can be both based on individual liberty and sovereignty and be resistant to
tyranny of the majority and instability.
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There are two ways republics can cure the violence of faction.
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First – because representatives, not the people, will make
decisions. They will less likely to be motivated by pure passion –
though this is not always the case – as he admits.
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.”
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The representative system will slow the process down so that
passionate feelings will not immediately influence policy.
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The fact that the public can only directly impact the government in periodic elections minimizes the
opportunity for passionate majorities to dominate
policymaking.
They can only have that influence at the appointed time.
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Second – because a representative government is more likely to
contain multiple interests, making it less likely that a single
permanent majority can be formed. The majority is likely to be
split.
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The existence of multiple interests makes it less likely that one, or a
small handful of interests will allow for the formation of a majority –
especially one that can be sustained.
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A large country will contain many interests.
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The House of Representatives, for example, contains 435 members elected from 435 distinct districts
around the country.
The various points of view held across the country will be heard in
the House.
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Madison argues that the smaller the republic, the more dangerous it can be because there will be a
smaller number of interests contained within it. This makes the
formation of a majority more likely.
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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; or if
such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover
their own strength, and to act in unison with each other.”
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Local governments are more likely to be tyrannical than state
governments and state governments are more likely to be
tyrannical than the national governments.
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Note: Since the Texas Constitution is far more democratic in its design and smaller in scale than the U.S.,
it may be more prone to tyranny of the majority.
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Madison’s point was that states were becoming tyrannical. The
ability of the minority – land owners – to preserve their rights – property – was being jeopardized.
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He noted in the states at that time: “A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, [and] for an equal division of property.” A
national government could suppress those tendencies.
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Madison's Ironic Conclusion: A Republican Solution to a
Republican Problem.
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The answer to the problem of factions – interest groups – is to
make more of them.
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Everyone is a minority, no one group can dominate.
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A minority cannot tyrannize the majority in a democracy.
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Certain institutions can preserve the benefits of a minority.
The Senate – six year termsThe Courts – appointed to the office, not subject to popular
pressure
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Certain procedures allow a minority to stop legislation from
either being passed or implemented.
FilibustersJudicial Review
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The Anti-Federalists disagreed with Madison’s assessment and wrote a
response:
Anti-Federalist #10
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On the preservation of parties, public liberty depends
A Farmer
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The Antifederalist Maryland Farmer, wary of the emergence of a high-toned social class, urges
ordinary Americans to "preserve your jealousy & [for] on the preservation of parties, public liberty
depends. Whenever men are unanimous on great public questions, whenever there is but
one party, freedom ceases and despotism commences. The object of a free and wise
people should be so to balance parties, that from the weakness of all you may be governed by the moderation of the combined judgments of the whole, not tyrannized ever by the blind
passions of a few individuals.“ – source.
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Contemporary criticism #1: Madison seems to believe that the natural development of groups will allow these groups to check each
other.
But is Madison painting an adequate picture of the dynamics
of group formation?
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This raises important questions about how interests organize and become influential, and equally important questions about why
others cannot.
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Madison seems to believe that any new interest will lead to the
formation of a group around it.
In some sense this is true.
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But not all interests in society are equally able to organize. Interests that can provide tangible material
benefits to small cohesive members can organize more
effectively than those that cannot.
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For examples: The wealthy can form more effectively than the
poor.
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It is difficult to form interest groups because not everyone
wants to work to make sure they are effective.
Some people free ride off the work of others.
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The Collective Action Problem
The Free Rider Problem
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Groups form only if someone figure out how to get potential
members to avoid the tendency to free ride.
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Political Entrepreneur
The individual responsible for determining how best to organize
an interest.
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Often this means figuring out how members can get selective benefits that are available only to members
of the group.
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Groups that can offer the strongest incentives to join will be more
powerful than those that cannot.
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Types of Selective Benefits
MaterialPurposiveSolidary
Informational
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A material incentive refers to some monetary advantage one gets as a consequence of being a member of the group that one would not have
otherwise received.
Business, labor and professional groups, for example.
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A purposive incentive refers to the idea that someone is part of an
effort greater than themselves, a grand purpose.
Religious, environmental, or any other “cause” that brings
satisfaction, but little monetary advantage.
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A solidary incentive refers to groups that exist primarily to
provide people the opportunity to connect with likeminded
individuals.
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Informational incentives refer to groups that provide members
information they otherwise would not have been privy to.
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Material incentives tend to work best. This explains why business groups tend to be the strongest
interest groups.
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Other interests, those of the poor for example, are very difficult to
organize.
As a result, they may be far less to have their interests heard in a
legislative institution.
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Interest groups politics benefits the interest that can be most easily
organized.
Current example: the old are more easily organized than the young.
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Contemporary criticism #2: While minorities cannot tyrannize, their ability to clog the administration and convulse society may make
governing impossible.
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A current criticism Demosclerosis: The progressive loss of
government’s ability to adapt due to interest group pressure.
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As societies develop and more groups are able to get benefits
from government, they will fight to preserve those benefits even if it means preventing improvements
to existing policy.
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This makes adaptation difficult. Bad policies can sometimes not be
changed because of the political strength of the groups that are
benefitting from them.
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Current examples:
SubsidiesPublic Employment
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Powerful interest groups can help develop networks that establish
relationships with legislative, executive and judicial officials in
order to tighten control over policies that benefit them.
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Popular names for these arrangements:
Iron TrianglesIssue Networks
Sub Governments
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The most common arrangement is called an iron triangle.
Members include:
Interest GroupsLegislative CommitteesBureaucratic Officials
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If the interest group is strong enough to influence elections to congress and the appointment of
executive officials, they can effectively regulate themselves
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Critics argue that a revolving door exists between people that work in
governmental agencies, congressional offices, and interest
groups.
These are the people that may really run things.
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The term “revolving door” refers to the fact that people who work for
government often find employment in the interest groups that they had some impact upon.
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Question: Is this corruption?
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Perhaps then government can be best thought of as hundreds of
small sub-governments that have developed around each of the policies established over time.
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Contemporary Criticism #3
With more sophisticated communication devices (online) is the ability of groups to organize
enhanced? Is impulse and opportunity more likely to coincide
now?
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Has technological development made majority tyranny possible
again?
Has out hyper-connected world negated what Madison hoped to
accomplish?
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Next Week
Federalist 51, the Separated Powers and the Checks and
Balances.
How does the Constitution handle the problem of ambition?
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Study Guide
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- “Republicanism” is argued to be one of the principles established in the Constitution. Be familiar with what it is and why it is a constitutional principle.- Be familiar with the difference between a republic and a “pure” democracy.- What is a faction and what problems did Madison argue factions posed in republics?- Be familiar with what Madison’s solutions to the problem of factions. What solutions worked? What solutions did not?
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- Be prepared to answer questions directly related to the terminology in Federalist #10.- Be familiar with contemporary issues associated with factions – demosclerosis, iron triangles, etc . . . - What problems did democratic government pose, according to Madison and the other Federalists? - Madison had different attitudes about minority and majority factions. What were these and why did he have this attitude?
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- What did Madison have to say about human nature in Federalist #10. How is the constitutional structure a response to it?- Where did Madison argue that tyrannical majorities were most likely to form?- What did Madison say about the formation of groups in society?