ElijahBosley is the nom de plume of a lawyer, writer, and student of political philosophy based in Virginia, USA. He publishes general interest articles on various topics including history, biography, and art criticism. Currently he is working on a book titled "The Spirit of Faction," exploring and updating James Madison's account in the Federalist Papers[1] of the deadliest danger to American democracy: partisan faction. The book will consider whether Madison's remedies are outdated; whether America is at risk and if so what we can do.
Under a separate nom de plume, FrederickFolger ⚓ (borrowed from a Baltimore privateer during the American Revolution) he posts maritime history articles.
In the words of Lord Shaftesbury: "[a] jest often decides weighty matters better and more forcibly than can asperity."[2]
- ^ James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay, The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States (1787-8) (New York: Random House Modern Library, Edward Mead Earle, ed.): Federalist 10 at 53-62 (considering evils of the spirit of faction and prospective remedies.)
- ^ Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury (1737). "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, vol. 1". Retrieved 2014-01-23.