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Often appears with: republic vs democracy · representative government · political legitimacy and consent · large republic · forms of government · elections and representation · constitutional practicability
Usually: argument (1) · exhortation (1) · skepticism (1)
Madison responds to critics who claim republican government cannot cover vast territory, arguing that republics use representatives and can be large, then defending the Constitution’s practicable scope across the Union’s distance.
To the People of the State of New York: We have seen the necessity of the Union, as our bulwark against foreign danger, as the conservator of peace among ourselves, as the guardian of our commerce and other common interests, as the only substitute for those military establishments which have subverted the liberties of the Old World, and as the proper antidote for the diseases of faction, which have proved fatal to o…