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Often appears with: forms of government · separation of powers and checks · representative government · representation and extended territory · political legitimacy and consent · limits of federal jurisdiction · large republic · enumerated powers of the national government · elections and representation · distance and attendance · counsel and advisers to rulers · constitutions and founding law
Usually: argument (2) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1) · praise (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…
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…