...representative form of 11 Following Madison, we may say that a faction is a group of people united by "some common impulse of passion, or of interest adverse" to the rights of the citizenry and the permanent interests of the community (Madison 1987, no. 10). government — would...

...citi/ens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by ettlement of these countries. To remind him that our...given to all men, of departing from the country in w controling its effects. There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one by destroying...

...effects. Madison denned faction as "a majority or minority of the whole, who are united or actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse...permanent and aggregate interests of the community." He believed that the Founders had discovered the formula for regulating faction: representative government...

...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...permanent and aggregate interests of the community." He saw the main cause of faction as the unequal distribution of property, and the solution to the problem...

...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...permanent and aggregate interests of the community." Unfortunately, the causes of faction are "sown in the nature of man" — we are all fallible beings...

...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...permanent and aggregate interests of the community." 6 Madison understood that the "latent causes of faction are . . . sown in the nature of man." 7 The...

...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...permanent and aggregate interests of the community." Chapter Six 1. These potentials inherent in the logic of a federal system are more fully explored in...

...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...permanent and aggregate interests of the community." Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, The Federalist, ed. Edward Mead Earle (New York, 1937),...

...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...permanent and aggregate interests of the community." These factions — now often commonly referred to as "special interests" — often imposed laws that...

...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...or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."73 Thus he revealed the inexorable presence of a factional imperative intrinsic to civil...