The Founding Fathers and Democracy

             The Pluralist Democracy best represents the Democracy the Founding Fathers had in mind for America. Pluralist Democracy consists of factions, which are many different people who all fall into different categories. Pluralist Democracies have a hunger for fresh different ideas for constant conversation and debate.  This enables good ideas to come to the surface and ensures that no group can be superior.
              In "Federalist 10", a response to an Anti-Federalist writer named Brutus, James Madison (the father of the Constitution) mentioned factions. He believed the more factions a democracy had the stronger and harder the government was to manipulate. As Madison said in Fed. 10, if you "extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens". The Pluralist Democracy is the only system where new ideas and topics are welcomed and the more of them the better. The chart on pluralism's (seen below)  factions shows a successful way to keep a democracy running. To do so smaller groups stabilize the government by starting/continuing some kind of conversation. The checks and balances Madison created, tie along with how smaller groups hold a specific power so that the government cannot torment its people with a far superior power.
              The democracy closest to the founding father's is Pluralism, seen throughout Federalist 10, Madison's checks and balances among the articles, and the chart explaining how Madison inspired factions of democracy. The founding fathers wanted an easy running democracy where the government couldn't abuse its power. The Participatory Democracy would be logistically difficult and the Elite Democracy would be a false representation of the people and more like a representation of a selected rank of people. Which makes Pluralist in reach of the founding father's ideology of a properly structured democracy.



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