... divide and ruin the nation. He believed that such factions would destroy the Union they had fought so hard to create. James Madison however, takes another point of view. In Federalist 10 he addresses the issues of factions among the people. He does not entirely condemn these ... given to every citizen, Madison concludes, that there will be a number of factions united by an idea. Rather than abolishing these groups and the liberty they are endowed with along with them, in Federalist Paper 10, he provides a solution to the problem opposing groups would form. This ... the responsibility ...

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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 rul...

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James Madison truly was a remarkable man. Intelligent, dutiful and possessed of a sense of civic duty that hasn't been duplicated since his era. The tenth Federalist Paper is the perfect manifestation of all these qualities. If not for men of Madison's vision, the United States might still be nothing more than an English investment colony. In this ... friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice." This is undoubtedly the case. Factions, or lobbies as they are referred to today, ...

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