1. The concept of “faction” is similar to “class” that we have been learning of over the first 5 weeks of this course. In this certain case, the faction that he is referring to sounds similar to the “working class”. The reason for this is because of how a faction is considered a group of people with opposing ideas to those of James Madison. In this case, Madison is a capitalist, and the ideas of the working class are considered unfavorable to him.
  2. According to the Federalist Papers #10, the source of wealth comes from the the ‘faculties’ they posses which are the interest and opinions that they have that are vastly different from the poorer working class. Some people get to own proprty while others don’t because they are born into the oppourtunity and have the faculties to do so. On the other hand, working class citizens are not born with the same faculties and remain in their working class.
  3. I do agree with this explanation because a major aspect of becoming rich and owning property has to do with circumstances outside of a persons control. Moat people are unable to control the environment of their early life and are from there, provided less opportunities to climb the wealth ladder. Alternatively, those who are raised in high earning families and given connections to other wealth individuals; can have a much easier time reaching levels of wealth.
  4. The “core mission” is to protect the capitalist from the working class. This is seen by the quote of ” The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees..” In this quote Madison is telling the reader that the government has a responsibility to keep the diversity in faculties the wat they are and that they must remain with the wealthy class essential. This sounds greatly different than what the government sounds like it should be doing today which is helping everyone and providing a chance for all.
  5. I am not surprised that the federalist #10 Paper is in favor of a Republican government because of the perspective of the writer being James Madison. James Madison himself is apart of the capitalist class so him writing in favor of a government that helps protect them would make sense. Madison would have been fearful of a democratic government as it would give the power to those that he believed didn’t wield the authority to do so.

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