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Federalist No. 14 Explained: Is America Too Big to Govern?
The most respected political science of the age said a republic had to be small — and America was anything but. Federalist No. 14 is James Madison's final answer to the objection that haunted the Constitution from the very start: that the country is simply too big to govern itself. Madison answers with a definition, a map, and a ruler — and then, in the closing paragraphs, the quietest man of the founding generation writes the most passionate passage in all eighty-five papers, a defense of doing what has never been done before.
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