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A Sober View of Human Nature: Federalist 10 and Factions

Episode length: 42m

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In Federalist 10, James Madison identified what he saw as one of the greatest dangers to popular government: factions. How did he define and understand them? Do his definition and his argument still stand up today? How can understanding the view on this issue at the Founding better understand our current politics?

Read Federalist 10: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/federalist-no-10-3//
Read Madison’s “Consolidation”: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/consolidation/
Read Madison’s “A Candid State of Parties”: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-candid-state-of-parties-2/
Read Joe’s article on political parties: https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/the-rise-and-fall-political-parties-america
Find American Covenant on Amazon: https://a.co/d/00voBuXV

Host: Jeff Sikkenga

Executive Producer: Jeremy Gypton

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