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handle is hein.amenin/aeiacxy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points Vary argue Tat A-rneK can poits today is opeiessly beser by triani----- the dea-. ended opposition of dioterent socii, econo poeitical, and religious factis set agains t oheri. While ibais-n is pait f human rhatti e, t'e repubicajn stateinan [as a duty to rie above i and gover foi the good of the whole country rther tian one segment. A car efiu Iook at JaTes 'ad i so.'s 4(j- year career in pol itics i 11 tate t hat h'.i lied o find comon gro eo nlaruiy pusuirng good for Ie Mob county wRithL dis- proportiona:ely urdenino. o aiding any, singe faction, If poiticians rinrnicked M'Aadhson's appoach to ulic poilicy -- trying find ' omnnor grou:id, riinii poitc Co seFs, and never e,:ainefiting one side tao jeatiy-- they could artnelhorate the prob. , of tribahism, Politics today is a -essy, urtpie sanr aftair that deeply displeases most Americans. They hate the fighting and mean-spidtedness. They hate tMit nobody seems to try to find common ground. T-day, publit intellestu,-as reliably infot:m the count'l> that the problen is tribalism. We the people are simply tio different and too opposed to each. other for politics to be better than an endless, bloody serum that acomplishes litle for the aver age Anerican. Tribalism (or what James Madisom would call f-.ctionaisin) does indeed contribute to politics' unpleasantnress, However, tribalism is an essential huntman iality to suibdivide race, ecnonics, reli- gion, gCeo-aphy; and so on. As Madison once said. factiotalisn is sown in the nature of man., Netver.n.eless, must this be the end of the storl' Arter all, a republic such as the United States is a system in which the people elect leae:s to rene.- sent the. Must leaders roboticaily reflect these factional divides, measure for measure, on the floor of Congresse Of course nor. Madison hoped thtat public ofcials would be characterized by rvisdomn ... patriotism and lo-ve of justice and that they wfould endeavor to refine and enlarge the public views?- This is notably similar to what Ednunid Burke stated In his farnous Speech to tie liectors at Bristol In thIs speech, Burke established what is nowa- called the trusteeship of r'-pcesentation' whereby representatives owe their most fervent devotion and dttifl consideration to the desires of themr eon sti'tuents Lut are ahiwas guided bya their S' N bL,: . T I

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