- The source of wealth according to Federalist # 10 is superior intelligence. The factors that explain why some people get to posses wealth by owning private property, and other don’t is determined by race, what social class you’re born into, whether or not your educated and intelligent.
- No, I do not agree with this explanation of wealth and poverty because I don’t agree that just because your poor you aren’t intelligent and because you’re rich you are.
- The core mission of the US government was to protect the people that were acquiring wealth from the people it might affect. “The protection of these faculties is the first objective of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different and parties.” This does not surprise me because we are still experiencing this in today’s society, the wealthy are still far more favored and protected than the lower working-class people. Alot of the laws we still have today yes, they make working conditions better, and we have a more workers rights but it’s still a very unfair system and the rich are still underpaying their workers.
- No, I am not surprised that Federalist # 10 is not in favor of democracy and supports a Republican form of government. The author dislikes a pure democratic form of government because that would give the people too much power and they didn’t want the minorities to be able to vote against things they found unfair because that would jeopardize the way they make their wealth these methods are usually unfair to the workers.
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Hey Sady, I agree with you that the source of wealth according to Federalist #10 is superior intelligence. It is shocking to me how strong the writer’s conviction in that thought was, too, because to me, it is an odd leap to think that wealth and intelligence are correlated. There are plenty of people who are poor and incredibly intelligent and I’m sure plenty of wealthy people who are not. It is such a closeminded, or maybe self-centered, way to approach the idea of wealth and social class, so I’m glad I’m not alone in not agreeing with it.