Do you think representative democracy is working today as Madison intended? Why or why not?

No

Explanation: The reason i don't think it is working is because the their are many issues one such could be gerrymandering in which a political party makes seats favor them against the opposing party when originally it may have favored the opposing party technically you are not really representing the people since gerrymandering also another problem is big bossiness buying out politicians the person you may support for government may get in but if they get bought off it really wont matter since they will be serving the interest of the corporation

alliances in ww1 were different from ww2 because the entente in ww1 made up of serbia,russia,france,britan,japan and italy later america  and all allied in a sort of balance of power and too keep germany,austria-hungary,and the ottomans down. russia allied the serbians in order to exert its influence in the balkans while france allied the russians because france was still in dismay and insulted after the defeat to the germans during the unification of germany and britian allied the belgians after the germans invasion of belgium.in ww2 the alliances were in a preemptive attempt to deter any further wars into happening while germany and italy allied since they were insulted and humiliated after the previous war while also sharing a similar ideology of facsim along with japan which all 3 had a want for world domination and agreed to assist one another in the endevours 

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