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Why does Madison reject pure democracy and small republics, and favor large republics? Well throughout this paper, Madison spends a lot of time going over how much better equipped to handle factions the Republic is compared to the direct Democracy. Direct Democracy could be hindered easily because the need of being heard from every faction might bring in too much racket from voting and debating on concerns that matter. Where a Republic have a legislative body of large areas that make the laws. By doing this, this filters out the noise and refine the insignificant factions out of the public deliberation because ultimately the representatives would choose to focus on topics most significant to the majority of the people they represent since they have the most amount of time. The Republic also elects that "fit characters" are more appropriate to discussion the concerns that the entirety of the people have together. "If the proportion of fit characters be not less in the large than in the small republic, the former will present a greater option, and consequently a greater probability of a fit choice. In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters" (p. 36). So in this paper, Madison pretty much assumed that these "fit characters" would rise above, the faction interests even if the majority wanted them

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