id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7386 Federalist No. 10 - Wikipedia .html text/html 5788 571 65 The Anti-Federalist belief that the wide disparity in the economic interests of the various states would lead to controversy was perhaps realized in the American Civil War, which some scholars attribute to this disparity.[26] Madison himself, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, noted that differing economic interests had created dispute, even when the Constitution was being written.[27] At the convention, he particularly identified the distinction between the northern and southern states as a "line of discrimination" that formed "the real difference of interests".[28] In "The People's Vote", a popular survey conducted by the National Archives and Records Administration, National History Day, and U.S. News and World Report, No. 10 (along with Federalist No. 51, also by Madison) was chosen as the 20th most influential document in United States history.[34] David Epstein, writing in 1984, described it as among the most highly regarded of all American political writing.[35] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7386.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7386.txt