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Any ways, the term Federalist kept coming up, and with the way these clowns think in the white house makes me see that the person from Iraq had changed the term from Democratic to Federalist thinking in order to bring the shites, sunnies, and others together!
Rahm Emanuel To Cheney: Please Get The Heck Out Of The White House 2009
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And since you dont seem to understand what a Federalist is they are basically Hamiltonian in that they are for a strong central government.
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That is, as Madison in Federalist 51 put it, we are not governed by angels (however much the vanguard may believe that they themselves have achieved a sort of utopian or godlike wisdom by the exercise of rationality, akin in some ways to the manner that Eastern spiritualists think they have attained Nirvana through meditation).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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And I think Madison was right in Federalist 10 that state-level decisions are, in general, much worse than national level decisions.
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Still, the argument in Federalist 10 does contain reservations about bigness.
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And I think Madison was right in Federalist 10 that state-level decisions are, in general, much worse than national level decisions.
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The explanation for Senate confirmation given by Hamilton in Federalist 76 is that it would prevent cronyism and the appointment of corrupt or incompetent judges.
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The explanation for Senate confirmation given by Hamilton in Federalist 76 is that it would prevent cronyism and the appointment of corrupt or incompetent judges.
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In fact, a copy of The Federalist sits proudly on my bookshelf, and I find an early vindication of our modern civil rights laws in Federalist 51's assertion that "[i] t is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other."
Debating the Tea Party: a reply to Peter Berkowitz E.J. Dionne 2010
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And I think Madison was right in Federalist 10 that state-level decisions are, in general, much worse than national level decisions.
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