At this time, there was a political battle between the founding father. The question was: should the colonies be one huge republic or should they have small democratic states? Let's look at Madison's article, Federalist 10; Here Madison explains why democratic representation would fail in the colonies. Madison contradicts the idea of ​​power; in a sense he declared before the Federalist Journal that the people had the ultimate power to control the government, but he emphasized the need for representatives. Madison is against direct democracy and understands the need for a republic. In Federalist 10, Madison gives us the main reason why democratic representation is an insufficient protection against tyranny. He states that in a democracy it will neither be protected nor able to manage factions. So, from a big picture perspective, how could a democratic state divided into factions protect itself from tyranny? Each state has its own set of rules and could fall under a single ruler or the people of that state could be subject to an unjust government. Madison saw the advantage that a republic would have over democratic representation and that it would provide the best protection against tyranny or any possibility of