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Ummm. No. Federalist 10 does not design states to be the democracies. Indeed, it is positively hostile to democracy. From this view of the subject it may be
by CalChris 10y ago
Ummm. No. Federalist 10 does not design states to be the democracies. Indeed, it is positively hostile to democracy.
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a
pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a
small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the
government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs
of faction.
Also, states were formerly colonies with assemblies that stretched back 150 years already when the Articles of Confederation were written. And the big C didn't design states; it recognized them since they already existed both in the Colonial era and during the Articles decade.