The common issue that Madison discusses in Federalist Papers #10 and #51 are the proliferation of political factions in society. He notes that man is a violent animal who likes conflict, and suggests in both essays that the only way to solve these factions is to allow for a society where many of them form such that they limit each other's powers. Madison's thoughts on separation of government and ... the formation of ... being in so much power as to thwart the needs of the other groups. Madison notes the reality of the class struggle in his mention of conflicts and conflicts of interest. ...

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... to form into factions or parties, it may just be inevitable that politics are a major player in a democratic system from the local level up and through the national level. Madison writes in The Federalist 10 Papers, "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to ... insignificant compared with the extravagance, corruption, and mismanagement which mark the administrations of most of the great cities. In New York they have revealed themselves on the largest scale."(Bryce 608) Bryce was a...

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