Federalist No. 10

Federalist No. 10 (Federalist Number 10) is an essay by James Madison and the tenth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on November 22, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. Federalist No. 10 continues a theme begun in Federalist No. 9; it is titled, "The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection." Publius argued that a strong, large republic would be a better guard against the dangers of faction than smaller republics—for instance, the individual states. Opponents of the United States Constitution, in favor of which Publius was arguing, offered counterarguments to his position, substantially derived from the commentary of Montesquieu on this subject.

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Essay - James Madison - Federalist Papers - November 22 - 1787 - Pseudonym - Publius - Federalist No. 9 - United States Constitution - Montesquieu

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The essay is the most famous of the Federalist Papers and among the most highly regarded of all American political writings.{{ref|Ep59}} The whole series is cited by scholars and jurists as an authoritative interpretation and explication of the meaning of the Constitution. Jurists have frequently read No. 10 to mean that the Founding Fathers did not intend the United States government to be partisan.

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American - Founding Fathers - Partisan

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