11th Annotation

Madison, James. No. 10. 86 vols. New York: 1788.

In Federalist essay No. 10 Madison explains how it's beneficial for the country to have a federal government that worries about the big issues and a state government which can handle the local issues. He states,"It must be confessed that in this, as in most other cases, there is a mean, on both sides of which inconveniences will be found to lie. By enlarging too much the number of electors, you render the representatives too little acquainted with all their local circumstances and lesser interests; as by reducing it too much, you render him unduly attached to these, and too little fit to comprehend and pursue great and national objects. The federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular to the State legislatures"