The Federalist No. 10 was an article that was hard to
understand, I had to reread it a few times to finally understand what Madison
was trying to say. Madison is trying to say that there is no way to get rid of
factions because people are prone to have their views and opinions. Getting rid
of factions would be quite difficult because there are only two options. The
first option is to destroy the liberties that we have created to give people
equality, or to give people the same views and opinions; meaning people were
only to have one belief. In the article Madison said that both these options
would be impossible because people fought for their liberty so they wouldn’t
give it up willingly and because they can’t just force people to have the same
belief as one another.
After
understanding the article, it gave me a clue as to what is going on in our
government. As of right now the government is shut down, meaning those who are
working for our government is out of work. I didn’t really understand what the
shutdown of the government meant until a friend told me to try and go on the
NASA website. When I went on the website the following note popped up, “Due
to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not
available.
We sincerely regret this inconvenience”(http://notice.usa.gov/). It’s crazy to think that because of the difference in opinions between the Democrats and the Republicans, the government is shut down. This proves that the factions that Madison was talking about are true. The reason why there will never be an end to factions is because people are too opinionated. Both the Republicans and the Democrats can sit and argue for days and nothing will be resolved. It’s frustrated to see our government shut down because they still get paid whether or not the government is up or down, but the citizens who work for the government have to sit at home with no pay. I hope the Republicans and Democrats can come up with a resolution soon because I hate to think about all the citizens who are suffering right now.
We sincerely regret this inconvenience”(http://notice.usa.gov/). It’s crazy to think that because of the difference in opinions between the Democrats and the Republicans, the government is shut down. This proves that the factions that Madison was talking about are true. The reason why there will never be an end to factions is because people are too opinionated. Both the Republicans and the Democrats can sit and argue for days and nothing will be resolved. It’s frustrated to see our government shut down because they still get paid whether or not the government is up or down, but the citizens who work for the government have to sit at home with no pay. I hope the Republicans and Democrats can come up with a resolution soon because I hate to think about all the citizens who are suffering right now.
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