“The Federalist #51”
Whilst
all authority in it will be delivered from and dependent on society, the
society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens,
that the rights of the individuals, or of the minority, will be in little
danger from interested combinations of the majority. In a free government the
security for civil rights must be the same as for religious rights. It consists
in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity
of sects. The degree of security in both cases will depend on the number of
interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of the
country and number of people comprehended under the same government (p. 105).
Madison
was relating about the threats of factions in society. He shares how diversity in
views and standards rather than a single approach can reduce the influence of
factions. In a government free of factions, society should come to terms and
reason on one accord. In so doing, the people will be more inclined to forgo threats
to others.
My
views on this quote from Federalist #51 highlight the importance of different
classes of society and the significance it supposed to hold in the
constitution. Individual and the minority rights would have a sense of
protection from the divisions of the popular. It’s in the number of voices from
the people which play a major role in the degree of security, as stated.
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