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Understanding Federalist 10: Analysis and Evaluation

By Charles Cooper

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Get the related handout: Teacher key Federalist 10 flowchart

Objective | Students will understand the arguments set forth by Publius in Federalist 10 by reviewing and memorizing the document’s terms. Students will also scrutinize the text by mapping the argument sequentially in a concept (tree) map. Finally, students will judge the overall message set forth in Federalist 10 by writing a … Read more »

Philosophy and the elections

With election season in full bloom, Harvard University’s Harvey Mansfield has a helpful essay at the Hoover Institution’s Defining Ideas journal exploring what political philosophy through the ages has to say about elections. Starting with Aristotle and continuing through Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, the American founders, and Alexis de Tocqueville, Mansfield introduces “half a dozen passages on elections in famous books on politics that every educated person, or serious citizen, would … Read more »

The Federalist and human nature

In part two of his series on the Federalist Papers, Tony Williams of the Washington, Jefferson, and Madison Institute examines the view of human nature presented in the essays. Check out his full post here, an excerpt from which appears below:

[T]he view of human nature as presented in The Federalist is a crucial question for understanding the Constitution. It should hardly surprise us that in an overwhelming … Read more »