... as men hold different opinions, have different amounts of wealth, and own different amount of property, they will continue to fraternize with people who are most similar to them. In Federalist #10, James Madison summed up factions eloquently stating that "Liberty is faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires." The government created by the Constitution controls ... completely take over. Madison's views on faction are still relevant and exercised frequently even after 200 years have passed. James Madison's most amazing political prediction, contained with...

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James Madison begins perhaps the most famous of the Federalist papers by stating that the fact that it establishes a government capable of controlling the violence and damage caused by factions. Madison defines that factions are groups of people who gather together to protect and promote their special economic interests and political opinions. Although these factions are at likelihood with each other, they frequently work against the public interests, and infringe upon the rights of others. In James Madison's own assumptions towards human nature, he describes them in explicit conditions. "So s...

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James Madison wrote the Federalist paper number ten by employing the knowledge of not only himself but that of John Locke. First by establishing that by human nature people separate themselves into certain factions. They do so by taking into thought a number of principles either by wealth, political stance, race, or whatever else people self-segregate themselves by creating somewhat of a hierarchy of groups (these factions much like our political parties, organizations, religions, geographically, and etc.). However, this is very unstable and faulty as a government; the many cannot be ruled by...

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Federalists No. 10 "Federalists Number 10", authored by James Madison, is where Madison argues for the brilliance of a republican democracy. He believes that one advantage of the Constitution is that it establishes a government capable of controlling the damage caused by factions. These groups of citizens who join together to protect and promote their own special economic interests and political views, frequently work against public interests and encroach on the rights of others. Madison states there are two methods of removing the causes of factions: one by destroying the very liberty essenti...

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... , or Local governments. It also defines and separates each of these governmental levels, while protecting each of their powers as well. This would not be true of an anti-federalist government. An anti-federalist government would greatly weaken the central government, while strengthening all of the state and local governments. Thus, the country, as a whole, would become dangerously weak, and most likely ... not succeed. I think James Madison says it best in Federalist #10, "Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and p...

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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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