... hands of families and groups causing a problem that James Madison would later address. This idea of rule by a few powerful families survived for quite some time. James Madison in his Federalist Papers talked about these powerful groups, or "Factions" in America. Madison defines a faction as "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and ... actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community" (Federalist No. 10). These faction...

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