Federalist Papers 9 - 10

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

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🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Trey and Ken explore Federalist Papers No. 9 and 10, focusing on the arguments for a large republic and the dangers of faction. Topics discussed include: The role of factions in democracy Montesquieu and the Anti-Federalist arguments for small republics Hamilton and Madison’s overview of the advantages of a large republic Madison's theory of interest checking interest Hamilton's deep dive into the history of Greece The Politics Guys on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠X⁠⁠ ⁠Trey’s Substack on the Federalist Papers⁠ Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at⁠⁠patreon.com/politicsguys⁠⁠ or⁠⁠ politicsguys.com/support⁠⁠. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of⁠⁠ The Democracy Group⁠⁠, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Where the hell am I?
0:02.0	It's a fighting tournament.
0:04.0	To the death.
0:05.0	It's called Mortal Kombat for a reason.
0:09.0	The tournament begins.
0:11.0	Johnny Case.
0:13.0	You have been chosen to fight.
0:15.0	Coming or what?
0:16.0	I'm an actor.
0:17.0	I can't do this.
0:19.0	You're fighting for the fate of our world.
0:22.0	Get over here!
0:24.9	Mortal Kombat 2. In Cinema's May 8. Book tickets now.
0:28.6	It's show time.
0:31.0	Atheist, agnostics, long-haired withers, short-haired withers.
0:35.2	Welcome to politics, guys.
0:36.8	I'm Trey Orndorpe, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University, and I'm joined by Ken Katkin, a professor of law, chase law school, for our ongoing series on the Federalist Papers. Ken, welcome to the Federalist Papers. Yeah, it's great to be back. I think we have picked the best things. I'm not going to lie, and I'm not just making a Trump joke, but I do think, you know, we started this off with the Constitution, and that was so well received, and we had so much fun that we decided, okay, look, we're going to move on. So Justin and I do ideologies now, and you and I are doing the Federalist Papers, and it's great. So what we've done is so far, we've made it through
1:12.7	the first eight Federalist Papers. And I want to remind listeners, if you take a look in the show
1:18.2	notes, you can also go in for more details there from my substack, where I go into even more
1:25.0	details. If you want to get to the links of the things that Ken and I are being talked about, if you want to get to the links of the things
1:27.5	that Ken and I are being talked about, if you want to get to the actual articles themselves,
1:31.3	you can do that there in the show notes for the substack. So we, today, we're going to be taking
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