Participatory, Pluralist, or Elite?

After the Revolutionary War and a failing first attempt at government the Founding Fathers needed to design a new document to insure the rights of the people and keep the Federal Government powerful enough to do its job without it getting out of control. After many months of debating and discussing they came up with the Constitution. This new government looks most like the Pluralist model of a Democratic Republic.

In the Federalist No. 10 James Madison talks about Factions. He talks about how factions are a inevitable part of a representative democracy and their only cures. One being to eliminate the factions. This however would mean that the government would have to encroach on the liberty of the people or to force all people to think he same way.  The other cure is to control its effects. The factions in the smaller previous democracies were disastrous and led to demise of said democracy. But Jefferson states that if somethings similar were to happen in a large republic the cure would be found. When a government functions as a large republic many different interests and passions are represented. This causes disagreement among the different factions and forces them to compromise in a way so that the majority of factions, not one big faction, agrees on legislature curing the disease brought upon by themselves. In Federalist No. 51 Madison restates his theory and concludes that in a representative democracy many different factions with different opinions are necessary in order for it to be practical in a country the size of the Untied States.