Pluralist Government

        The United States of America is a pluralist democracy. A pluralist democracy is a democracy in which groups of people compete to influence political decisions. In order to get changes made, we have movements, with organized groups of people all fighting for different things. We are a nation of factions, the most general being republicans and democrats.
       In federalist 10, James Madison says, "by a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community". He is clearly defining a faction as a group of people who come together to influence politics, which he believes is how our government works. A democracy is supposed to yield to what the people want, but their needs to be a large population, or faction, of people who want a specific change. Factions will fight to stop other factions from changing policy, which is also how a pluralist government is defined, with competing factions. 
    Currently in our nation, there is a group of people who are moving to change the gun laws. That group is competing with the NRA, or National Rifle Association, who is protecting gun laws. Both of these factions is a group of people working together for one common goal.  Vox.com says that the march for our lives movement "drew anywhere from 200,000 to 800,000 people." the fight for our lives movement was a group of people all fighting together to make a change, which proves that the United States is, in fact, a pluralist government.