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Federalist 10

9/25/2022

Thinking and Teaching the Implications of Federalist #10 for Democracy

by Jeff Schneider

Teachers of Constitutional history must push their students to understand something difficult: James Madison's vision of the "public good" is a vision of elite rule that today stands in the way of democratic solutions to society's problems.

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Federalist 10

Thinking and Teaching the Implications of Federalist #10 for Democracy

by Jeff Schneider