Comprehensive Democracy is Socialism
Posted in Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Freedom, Income Taxes, Republic, U.S. Government, congress, rights on Jul 6th, 2008 No Comments »
As part of this turning, James Madison presented an argument refuting Montesquieu and establishing representative government as a preferable form. Madison’s argument, presented in “Federalist No. 10,” defended representative government precisely because of the buffer it created between the people and the laws that governed them. The grave threat to government was “factions,” groups of citizens, whether a “majority or a minority of the whole,” animated and organized against the “permanent and aggregate interests of the community.” Direct democracies ensured that these factions would dominate, but representative government, however, especially over a large territory and population, would remove such a threat.
