Why does the American form of Government Work?

"The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects."

"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"

-Federalist Paper No. 10

In Federalist Paper No. 10, Madison compares the American republic to the political theories regarding a completely pure democracy, and with these passages helps prove the reasons why the republic is favorable for the American people. In every society, factions of conflicting interests have, do, and will exist. Therefore, since civilization has not yet found a way to eliminate difference of opinion and the gathering of people of similar ideas, the best way to deal with such, possibly malicious, factions is not to attempt to curb their existence, but, as Madison argues, to make factions attempting to malign the rights of people and justice of government wholly insignificant. In a pure democracy, Madison declares, such a faction would affect the entire ruling body, and plague it with tumult and disorder, but in a republic, it is simply put down "by regular vote". By retaining control of not only power in the face of malicious factions, but also of order within the government, the republic, as proven by Madison and instituted by America, is the superior form of government.

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"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions."

"The second method will be exemplified in the federal republic of the United States. Whilst all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority"

-Federalist Paper No. 51

In these passages, the author(either Hamilton or Madison) shows that although a government should depend wholly on the people for the retention of its power, for it stems from and continues to exist because of the will of the people it governs. However, the author realizes that although this is the optimal case, the way to ensure its continuance throughout time would be to find other ways to control the government and prevent the tyranny and corruption that the contemporaries of the revolution saw with their own eyes in the British empire. By placing "auxiliary precautions" the founders of the United States ensured stability in government for centuries to come. However, since the government derives its power from the people, the people themselves must have the best interests of the nation at heart. By utilizing separation of power not only in government by means of various governmental branches and the like, but also in society itself, the rights of the individual are protected by the fact that a majority can only be built by the combined interests of every sect, which would boil down to only positive outcomes for all, and thus the progress of society into a better world. By utilizing a system of checks and balances in government, as well as separation of power in both society itself and on the federal stage, the American form of government was made to work.