Federalist paper 67

This basically talks about how the people against the Constitution, or the anti-Federalists, are trying to make the government a monarchy.  The Federalists do not like this idea.  It goes into great detail about how the anti-Feds are trying to make the President of the United States the supreme ruler instead of just a guy who helps in leading the government.  They are almost making him more important than the king, was.  The writer also talks about how it is impossible for someone to realize how terribly wrong it is to have a President act similarly as a king would in a monarchy.  He is basically tearing down the guy who was talking about how the President should be more like a king.  He is also writing about how it is the presidents right to only fill the vacancies of the senate, not appoint them from the beginning, which gives him limited power.  Alexander Hamilton, the writer, explains at the end that he wanted to make it clear to everyone that the president will only appoint the senators in case the first one resigns or abdicates.  This means that he has a limited power.  This relates to today because the president is not all-powerful.  He has things that he has to do as the president, but appointing senators for the legislative branch is not what he can do.  This is unless someone resigns, then he can appoint people during the recess. 

Federalist paper 10

Basically he is talking about how the government developed can help in controlling the problems that have to do with the different groups of people with different beliefs.  These groups of people that promote their own beliefs are hurting the freedoms of other people.  HE also mentions how the people basically blame all the problems in the United States on the government itself instead of the people who infringe the rights of others.    What people do not realize is that because of human nature, these “factions” are inevitable.  They are always going to be there because not everyone is going to agree with everyone else.  People are going to have their rights revoked.  He then proceeds to speak of why these factions exist.  He believes that they exist mainly because of the unequal distribution of property.  People are going to think differently when they have money as opposed to when they do not.  There are basically two ways to handle these “factions”.  One way is to remove its causes, which is impossible.  The second is to control its effects.  There are really only two ways to “control its effects”.  One of these ways would be to destroy liberty which is impossible in a democracy.  The other is to give every citizen the same feelings, mindset, ideas, religion, etc.  These two things are basically impossible.  It is impossible for someone to be exactly the same as another.  This is why the framers made up a representative democracy so that basically everyone gets a word in for ideas of how to run the country.  Theoretically the persons who represent the people will be solely in it for the good of the population, but in reality that is not going to happen.  This is in effect today because we have a representative democracy and most people get to be heard, but there is still the human nature factor, which makes the factions come into play and not all people are content with the government.