Review Quiz of Brutus #1 and Federalist #10

The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

Complaints are everywhere heard […] that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the Constitution.

When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens.

A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual

Was used to evoke images of the heroic Roman republican who killed the usurer tyrant -; it is a series of essays by an anti-federalist as to why not to ratify the Constitution

criticizes parts of the Constitution he considers most dangerous to republican liberty

if it were a wise decision to accept the Constitution then the people will lay a "lasting foundation of happiness for millions yet unborn", but if it tends to establish a despotism or tyrannic aristocracy, then it is a bad decision and liberty will be lost and the future generations will see your decision as poor

when people part with power, force is usually the only way to get it back

the way the Congress has all the power to tax means the confederation is lost and instead an entire republic is replaced; the power to tax is one of the strongest powers

the power Congress have over the militia will be the destruction of liberty

it would be such a large republic that government officers would be the control of the people and would abuse their power; trust would be hard

What is argued about representatives elected into such a large republic? They would soon be beyond control by the people and abuse their power for selfish and corrupt purposes.