Federalist Paper #10

This paper was very difficult to comprehend or fully understand. I caught myself re-reading just the first few sentences. I tried breaking down each sentence. What I understood from the first couple sentences was even with a well-constructed union there is bound to have a breakdown point however they (meaning congress or the union) should be able to control the breakdown. Basically be able to control the system. "The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished" this basically is saying that the government is unstable and has failed. Another phrase that caught my attention was, “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." This I can somewhat agree to an extent. Yes some decisions are made for the people but superior people have the power to make decisions they want and since they have that power they take control. 

The second part talks about removing mischief of faction. I think its talking about the mischief of the government. It states we remove the causes and we need to control the effects. If that were the case I think the government may run smoothly. But of course it isn't that simple to do. (Which was stated in bold in the article) we cannot fully remove the causes so we need to look at the effects and somehow resolve them. It also talks about how the factions have different opinions about religion, government and other points have divided mankind into parties. That makes perfect sense because we have two different parties that society fall into; Democratic & Republican. Both believe the government system should run in a certain way. I see it as many “influences" do have an impact on factions. Factions have a big part in dealing with the government system. They have deal with what you think is right versus what others believe is right and some how compromise with themselves and need to decide whats best. 

I did not I fully understand the federalist papers. I tried to break it down but it was very difficult and puzzling to translate or wrap my mind around it. I hope I wasn't completely off. But it would sure help if we went over it in class.