... 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 ... to allow society to form so many factions that none of them is the most powerful. Since all the citizens of a large state are allowed mingling with each other, no single group will emerge as being in so...

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... human social nature 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 ... and as well defends the party system. Schattschneider's principle argument is the ways in which parties "fill the gap". By filling the gap he is recognizing the different interest that the upper- class an...

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