Madison describes factions as groups of people, both majority and minority who share a common impulseof passion or of interest. He then goes into the ways how people can stop factions when they become too dangerous, these include removing its causes, controlling its effects, destroying its liberty which is essential for its existence, and give every citizen the same beliefs, passions, and interests.
1. Are factions good or bad?
2. Who decides when a faction has become dangerous?
3. How many people does it take to make up a faction?
4. By destroying factions are you stripping away a citizens freedom of speech?
Faction- A group of people who are motivated by passions and who try to radically take control of the politics in the government.
Factions today would be like our political parties, each stand for different ideals, but both fight each other to try and assume control of the government. Also modern day factions try to push through bills that benefit their beliefs and supposedly the beliefs of the people they represent. Today factions try and take control by gaining majorities in the three branches of the government, and they accomplish this by gaining the support of the people.
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