There’s an old idea of fairness that when cutting a cake between two people one person cuts and the other picks the piece they want.

This method aligns the interests of both parties, no matter how corruptible and human they may be.

I think it’s underappreciated how often the US government design has a similar method in its checks and balances: one group can reject an official, but they don’t get to choose the replacement.

See, for example, impeachment proceedings.

After all: “This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public.”

–Hamilton (maybe)

#USPolitics #politicalscience #federalistpapers #hamilton

Hillsdale College is advertising bound editions of The Federalist Papers inside The Atlantic app

#federalistpapers #hillsdalecollege #theatlantic #ConstitutionalLeft

@malkz @jimdonegan Why didn’t proximity searches like that catch on? No public web search engine is smart enough to offer word proximity queries, nor is there a grep-like CLI text tool that can do that. I often use complex sed commands to try to do a job that #grep probably should have evolved to handle. Even the line-delimited search of the #FederalistPapers was probably not ideal. #askFedi

the chief demagogue is at it again...

now he lets his votaries vote on how they feel about us budget spending.

it is quite ironic that those currents of us-american politics, that glorify -the founding fathers®- the most are those who are about to do all and everything the federalist papers were warning/worried about. #publius

#musk #elonmusk #twitter #budget #democracy #federalistpapers #jay #meme #mamema #fckthattwitt #birdsite

#elonmusk|s #twitter #poll|s are exactly what james #madison has worried about in the #federalistpapers