Federalist Paper #10

In Federalist Paper #10, what is a faction?

• a majority tyranny

• the extended sphere

• special interest groups

• the new Constitution

Madison suggests that the best way to handle the problem of factions is to remove the causes of them by either giving everyone the same opinion or by destroying the freedom for them to exist.

• True

• False

"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire", James Madison wrote.

• True

• False

How did James Madison view the existence of “faction” in America?

• He feared faction and felt that there was no way to control it.

• He liked faction and wanted the strongest faction to dominate

• He refused to acknowledge that any factions existed in the new nation.

• He feared faction but thought its effects could be managed by the existence of many competing factions.

Which of the following factors was most likely at the source of any faction that arose according to James Madison?

• regional differences

• wealth and property differences

• gender differences

• racial and ethnic differences

Madison thought it was difficult to deal with the problems created by minority factions.

• True

• False

To James Madison, the size of the American nation should be

• small, to allow lots of individual attention.

• medium, because he believed in Aristotle’s “moderation in all things.”

• large, so that many diverse groups could exist.

• spherical, in order for the president to be in the center.

James Madison placed a lot of trust in elected representatives in order to prevent the masses in America from having too much direct power.

• True

• False

James Madison believed that the best opportunity to preserve liberty would be:

• to elect a Federalist president

• to create a unified government with all power concentrated in the hands of a strong president

• found in the diversity of interests or factions in American society

• to continue to operate under the Articles of Confederation

Madison thought that the best form of government to handle the problem of factions was:

• direct democracy

• autocracy

• dictatorship

• republic