Political Science · Political Theory
Which one of the following thinkers defended representative democracy against direct democracy?
AJohn Locke
BKarl Marx
CM. A. Bakunin
DJames Madison ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) James Madison — James Madison defended representative democracy against direct democracy, so the answer is Madison.
Explanation
★James Madison defended representative democracy against direct democracy, so the answer is Madison.
★Madison was an American statesman and a principal author of the Federalist Papers.
★In Federalist No. 10 he argued that a large republic best controls the dangers of faction.
★He preferred a representative republic to a pure, direct democracy.
★Representation, he held, refines and filters public opinion through elected delegates.
★It also makes self government workable over a large and diverse territory.
★Bakunin, by contrast, was an anarchist hostile to the state altogether.
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