I know I personally have heard that “James Madison invented the two-party system”.

They hear people in government fighting so much about important topics and lose hope. People always talk about how they hate the two-party system. After 2020, we could all use a bit more understanding about why there is so much conflict. Constitution.Īfter reading Federalist Paper #10 in particular, I had the desire to “translate” it into “readable English” because it was really hard to understand, but I felt like the content was so helpful in understanding conflict in our society even today.

These are a series of published papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay trying to convince the American people to adopt what we know today as the U.S. Last year, I read some of the Federalist papers.