The Federalist essays, written during the debate over the ratification of the Federal
Constitution of 1787, represent the single most important body of political thought in
American history. Shaped by his knowledge of conflicts between dissenters and the
established Church in his home state of Virginia, James Madison’s essays in particular
show a sensitivity to the ways in which factional politics had power to subvert the rights
of minorities in the new United States. Taken together with Madison’s and Thomas
Jefferson’s attempts to protect religious freedom in Virginia, Federalist 10 and Federalist
51 show the role religion played in shaping American political philosophy.
Please read the texts in the following links:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed10.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp
http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact.html
http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/madison_m&r_1785.html
Both in western and eastern Mediterranean in the late fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries, religious differences became the cause of
persecution (Jews and Muslims, or conversos and moriscos in Spain) or
outright war (Sunnis vs. Shiites between the Ottomans and Safavids). Was
religion the main cause in these developments or were there other things
going on that were articulated through religious discourse?
Please make sure that your answer is a single page, double-spaced essay,
written in Times New Roman font (size 12), with an inch of margins on
all four sides. Finally, you should have references
to both of the relevant readings (assigned for May 4 and May 6).
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