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Often appears with: separation of powers and checks · republic vs democracy · representation and extended territory · limits of federal jurisdiction · forms of government · counsel and advisers to rulers · constitutions and founding law
Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1) · praise (1)
Madison answers objections that a large republic cannot govern, distinguishing republic from democracy, arguing representation permits wide extension, and defending the constitution’s limited federal jurisdiction.
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…