Constitutional underpinnings of United States Government
In the Federalist no. 10_, Madison expressed his fear of factions, particularly _majority_ factions, who have potential to turn a republic into a "majority-ruled" state where the rights of minorities are trampled.
Madison had four solutions to his fear of factions. Closer to the end of Federalist #10, you will see that there is a paragraph, which begins, "The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are..." After that paragraph, the rest of the article talks about his solutions to the problem of Factions. He believed that there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: – One, by removing its causes; –The other, by controlling its effects. There are two other methods of removi
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