Blog #3

Ola Omar
                                                                        Blog #3
          The quote that I have selected for reflection #3 is from The Federalist Papers #10 by James Madison. The quote that I have selected is "Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority." (Madison, 1787). 
          The quote that I have selected means that laws or important decisions are not decided in favor of all people (no matter what there culture may be) or by what is right or what is wrong, but by the superior group and that superior group only makes decisions based off of their needs and interests. For example, In The Federalist Papers #10, Madison claims that decisions that lead to factional disputes are property and the distribution of wealth among society. Madison is trying to say that the elite U.S government group are making the rules of how things like money are being distributed among the U.S citizens in an unfair way. The government is only distributing money among U.S citizens in a way that benefits them. Madison even says that "Every shilling with which they over burden, is a shilling to their own pocket." ( Madison, p. 93).
          The superior forces in the U.S are also making decisions for America that helps benefit their class of people and lets face it, the superior classes in America are either white or wealthy. Well, what about the Spanish people, the black people, the Muslims, the middle classes, and the poor classes of people? All of these different religions and races that I have written above are what the government sees as the minority group. The wealthy group go on to influence the majority of America that they are doing things in the interest of all of the U.S citizens, but they need to work harder in providing more services and opportunities for people who are not in the same class as them. For example, they should provide more scholar ships for private school, more employment opportunities, more shelters for the homeless, and more food giveaways.
           I believe that Madison wrote this quote in The Federalist Papers #10 to let the U.S citizens know that the wealthy class are the ones who are controlling how the money is being distributed among our societies. Madison discusses how the more people there are in the country, the more chance competent people will be found for office, so minority groups need to push themselves to do better in school and not be part of the crime rate in America, so that there will be more diversity in America. When America is full of people of all cultural backgrounds succeeding in life, it will be harder for factions to dominate.
          I selected this quote because I think that it is important for our society to realize that it is not right for one particular group to decide the faith of the rest of the people in America. If the superior force was making the decisions in an honest way, I would not have a problem with the superior force controlling how the money is distributed in our society. However, that is not the case. We the people need to take matters into our own hands and start demanding that the superior forces in America such as the congress make better decisions for all of us and not just in favor of one particular group.