Essay On Maddison

In Federalist Paper number ten, James Madison talks about the situation at the time regarding Factions. Maddison mainly focused on how to end the influx of factions, but nearly every single course of action he proposed, seemed too impractical or downright moronic to follow through with. Factions are impossible to stop within a democracy because they are the reason the democracy stays strong, rather than be destroyed. In order for a democracy to flourish, the ideas and changes voted for by the majority of the people must be upheld, and in order for this to happen, factions have to rise up and shed light on issues in the current system. Instead of writing on how to remove validity from these groups, Maddison should instead have focused on how to better use these factions in order to strengthen the democratic views. Earlier this year, Ammon Bundy led an armed yet peaceful Faction against the US Bureau of Land Mangement for imprisoning ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond in a case of double Jeopardy. One of the constitutional rights
When Stalin rose to power in the late ‘30s to early ‘40s, he made sure anyone who could rise against him was removed from the picture. Anyone who had a differing opinion, and could act against him, he had hunted down and killed. Leon Trotsky, a political rival who could have potentially spoke out against him allowing people to see behind the curtain Stalin was pulling over their eyes, was chased out of the Soviet Union with a price on his head. Military commanders who could have potentially disagreed and led the military against Stalin were also hunted down and murdered by Stalin’s police. By removing the voice of the people, Stalin was able to take complete control of his people, without having to worry about the possibility of a revolt. Without factions, governments are able to take complete control away from the