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I don't know why progressives deny that is exists.
I don't know why conservatives act as if the Deep State is a modern abnormality, it's been around since the founding and was supposed arise due to the design of our constitution.
Federalist No. 10 - Wikipedia
The fact we haven't devolved into total (armed) civil war with all these extraordinary differences in political ideology across the United States speaks volumes of the wisdom and foresight behind the drafting of the Constitution.
I don't know why conservatives act as if the Deep State is a modern abnormality, it's been around since the founding and was supposed arise due to the design of our constitution.
Federalist No. 10 - Wikipedia
The fact we haven't devolved into total (armed) civil war with all these extraordinary differences in political ideology across the United States speaks volumes of the wisdom and foresight behind the drafting of the Constitution.
Federalist No. 10
James Madison, author of Federalist No. 10
Author James Madison
Language English
Series The Federalist
Publisher The Independent Journal, New York Packet, Daily Advertiser
Publication date
November 23, 1787
Media type Newspaper
Preceded by Federalist No. 9
Followed by Federalist No. 11
Federalist No. 10 is an essay written by James Madison as the tenth of The Federalist Papers: a series of essays initiated by Alexander Hamilton arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution. Published on November 23, 1787 under the pseudonym "Publius", Federalist No. 10 is among the most highly regarded of all American political writings.[1]
No. 10 addresses the question of how to reconcile citizens with interests contrary to the rights of others or inimical to the interests of the community as a whole. Madison saw factions as inevitable due to the nature of man – that is, as long as men hold differing opinions, have differing amounts of wealth and own differing amount of property, they will continue to form alliances with people who are most similar to them and they will sometimes work against the public interest and infringe upon the rights of others. He thus questions how to guard against those dangers.[citation needed]
Federalist No. 10 continues a theme begun in Federalist No. 9 and is titled "The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection". The whole series is cited by scholars and jurists as an authoritative interpretation and explication of the meaning of the Constitution. Historians such as Charles A. Beard argue that No. 10 shows an explicit rejection by the Founding Fathers of the principles of direct democracy and factionalism, and argue that Madison suggests that a representative republic is more effective against partisanship and factionalism.[1][2]
Madison saw the Constitution as forming a "happy combination" of a republic and a democracy and with "the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular to the State legislatures" the power would not be centralized, thus making it "more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried".