FEDERALIST 10

HOW DOES MADISON DEFINE FACTION?

• A number of citizens, majority or minority, who were united and activated
• "By some common impulse of passion, or interest to the rights of other
• Citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

WHAT ARE THE 2 METHODS OF CURING MISCHIEF CAUSED BY FACTIONS?

• Remove courses (remove liberty) and control effects

WHAT ARE THE 2 WAYS OF ELIMINATING THE CAUSES OF FACTION?

• Destroy liberty
• Equalize opinions, passions, amd interests

ACCORDING TO MADISON, WHAT IS THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF CONFLICT?

• Unequal distribution of property

WHAT ARE THE 2 REMEDIES FOR CONTROLLING THE EFFECTS OF FACTIONS?

• Large society under a representative government rather than a
• Small society under popular form of government.
• A constitution to check the power of factions.

WHY ARE FACTIONS MORE EASILY CONTROLLED IN LARGE REPUBLICS?

• Popular government enables it to sacrifice public good and the rights of other
• Citizens, their passions, and their interests.
• More factions = more difficulty to consolidate power.