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Ashley Augustus 9/23/14 Federalist #10 1.

James Madison feels that factions are inevitable and need to be controlled so because the government cannot punish them without violent consequences.

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A faction is a group of citizens united by a passion or interest. If Madison were alive today, he would see the factions of work unions, large company lobbyists, and religious groups.

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Two methods of curing the mischief of factions are removing the causes that make people protest and controlling their efforts. This is not possible today.

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Two methods of removing the causes are to destroy liberty and make everyone the same. These would not be possible today.

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Madison feels that the first remedy is that this is a cure worse than the disease because liberty is essential for our country.

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Madison feels that the second remedy is impractical because you cannot make everyone the same.

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Madison says that the cause of factions is that they are inevitable and sewn into the US. This is true today because there are always factions whether it be of religion or wealth.

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Factions will be impossible to control for the good of the whole society.

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Madison says that factions can be controlled by controlling the facts.

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When the factions represents a minority of the people there will be no problem because they are easy to defeat but if the faction represents a majority of the people, then they can control the minority.

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The two possible solutions are to prevent passions and have the majority co-exist with passion and interest.

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There is no cure in pure democracy for the mischief of faction because there will always be tyranny of the majority.

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A republic promises the cure.

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A republic compares better to a democracy because you have elected officials who decide on matters and passions are filtered.

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Large republics provide the best safeguards against factions because they have a bigger pond on potential leaders.

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The happy combination that will cure the problem is the constitution....