{"id":13790,"date":"2026-09-28T00:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/?p=13790"},"modified":"2026-10-04T23:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:40:45","slug":"6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/2026\/09\/28\/6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"6.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Faction reminds me of social class. Madison describes a faction as a group of people who are united by a common interest. He also says that the main source of different factions is the unequal distribution of property. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Madison says property comes from the &#8220;diversity in the faculties of men,&#8221; meaning people&#8217;s different abilities in acquiring property. According to him those more capable were able to own property and those without the skills and talents were unable to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. No, I slightly agree but majorly disagree. Sure, talent and ability does have a hand in acquiring wealth, but only for some. This definition leaves out how majority acquired wealth: inheritance, inequality in education, and major groups were legally prohibited from owning anything (such as slaves and women).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Madison says it is &#8220;the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property,&#8221; so the government&#8217;s core mission is protecting property, especially the property of the wealthy. Today&#8217;s government is described as serving the people: protecting freedom, providing security and welfare etc., although the influence of money and the wealthy shows that Madison&#8217;s description of the core mission may still be as such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Madison preferred a Republican form of government because pure democracy meant majority wins, and the majority of the population was (and still is) the poor\/middle class people. They would have all supported against the wishes of the wealthy class (one example: by supporting debt relief schemes). He and the framers of the Constitution all worried for their own wealth and assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2. Madison says property comes from the &#8220;diversity in the faculties of men,&#8221; meaning people&#8217;s different abilities in acquiring property. According to him those more capable were able to own property and those without the skills and talents were unable to do so. 3. No, I slightly agree but majorly disagree. Sure, talent and ability&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-6-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13867,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790\/revisions\/13867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2026-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}