This is one of the project’s core tags. It is used for Papers that focus on the challenges and promises of popular government: representation, majority rule, faction, or democratic legitimacy.
Loyalist № 8. The Electoral College was meant to shield the presidency from partisanship and populism – but quickly became their tool. Federalist No. 68 offers a window into the original design and its failure, raising deeper questions: What can Westminster democracy teach us about balancing local and national interests? And have Canadians unknowingly created an Electoral College of Our own?
Loyalist № 7. The rise of factional politics in Canada and the U.S. reveals a deeper failure of design. Whether through regional fragmentation or ideological polarization, Our institutions no longer reward broad-based coalitions. Madison warned against these very dangers – and what they would mean for democracy in North America.
Loyalist № 6. What if the Framers had chosen a plural executive instead of a President? Revisiting a pivotal debate that sparked Federalist No. 70, We imagine the consequences of a very different choice – one that might have left the young United States of America fractured, its capital in ruins, and its future uncertain.
Loyalist № 3. Just as Hamilton feared that an incomplete economic union would invite a “policy of fostering divisions among us,” so have We Ourselves fallen prey to the same strategy employed by the new U.S. administration. In the face of American economic aggression and overt threats to annex Our country, Canada’s fragmented economic framework leaves Us vulnerable.