To Madison, there are only two ways to control a faction. First is to remove the causes and the second to control the effects. The first is impossible because the two ways to remove the causes of a faction: destroy liberty or give every citizen the same opinions, passions, and interests. Destroying liberty is a "cure worse then the disease itself," and the second is impracticable. The causes of factions are thus part of the nature of man and we must deal with their effects and accept their existence. The government created by the Constitution controls the damage caused by such factions. The fr...

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... in 1828. James Madison had previously published twenty-six out of the eighty-five Federalist Papers in 1787-1788, the two most influential Federalist Papers regarding the issues of factions and tyranny were Federalist Papers 10 and 51. Madison was preoccupied with finding the balance between ensuring our ... 's tariff policy, and was the first American to fully develop the idea that the will of the majority can directly hurt the minority factions in society. Calhoun viewed this "Tariff of Abominations" to directly be benefiting the manufacturing-based North while the agricultural export...

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