Hey everybody. This is James Lindsay and you're listening to the New Discourses podcast,

and we're going to talk about the Federalist papers, not all of them, or at least not yet.

I want to read to you the Federalist No. 51 in this episode of the podcast.

This was composed by James Madison,

or it says Alexander Hamilton,

usually considered to be James Madison,

on the 6th of February 1788,

just to kind of give you a little bit of framing for why am I doing these on the podcast

and what are they, if you don't know?

So what I want to do on the podcast, just like I'm doing kind of in the

James Lindsay only subs series about James reads the Bible, is I want to go through materials

not just that we're understanding to criticize, but also how we have the answers already at our

fingertips. People have

asked me for a long time, James, what's the solution? James, what's the solution? And the kind of

underlying assumption that they're offering is that what we have already doesn't work. And so what we

need to do is abandon the circumstance that we have and come up with something totally new.

And the left wing proposal, the woke proposal for the something new is not very good.

So we have to come up with something else.

But if all you do is say that the left thing or the woke thing doesn't work, you're not providing a solution.

But the thing is, is that we already have the solution. The solution

is, in the United States, at least, the U.S. Constitution, in the James Lindsay only subs,

James reads the Bible series, the solution is the Bible. We have these texts already. We have these

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