Jack Jones

After reading much more papers and conducting my interview with a Political Science teacher from SDSU, I am more confident in my claim that political parties today represent the exact fear Madison iterated in Federalist 10, the tyranny of the majority. Although, since the interview I have seen many more structural points that the government chooses to bend at times, whether it be social media’s aspect in polarization, the empirical claim from Madison that diversity was needed in a large republic but seemingly never delivered, Ballot access laws and how it lead to the two party system, a populist controlled government, and how Madison only feared the tyranny of a majority and even though he had the authority he did not stop it as best he could.

What was established in the interview?

Furthermore, we included the current MAGA administration into the loop, with this we concluded that the republican party is a faction and MAGA therefore is too. In this case, MAGA has a unified control of government, to highlight its influence we defined unified government, which is an administration that has a majority control in the 2 major branches Executive and Legislative. Although MAGA actually has more control than that, in Trump’s first term he elected supreme court justices, with this he gained the majority in the supreme court separated by partisanship, democratic and republican. Unified government: http://socialstudieslab.org/vocab/mt4jjrsrmfm9lws-yrpgg-8nhd3-b39fd-4n6h9-n58j6-sw9xe

Expanding on the voting system and division the society through partisan polarization. Madison’s involvement in the creation of the electoral college had a different intended purpose than what it is used for today. The electoral college, per my interviewee was, “a deliberative buffer a body of informed electors who would exercise independent judgment rather than simply ratifying popular passion. In that sense it was very much in the spirit of Federalist No. 10 insert a layer of reasoned deliberation between raw popular emotion and the selection of executive power.” Although now it has become a means of spreading and ratifying popular passion, especially with the presence of the winner take all system. The system in itself skews how candidates view states, certain states matter more to them, meaning they prioritize them, and by that point already democracy isn’t democracy. Include gerrymandering and its basically a populist controlled government.