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Federalist No. 10 — faction, and the scheme of representation

Madison's definition of faction and the turn to a republic. Sealed because the Alliance's own charter borrows the problem: passion against the rights of others, and a structure that does not pretend men are angels.

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. ... The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States.

James Madison, Federalist No. 10, 22 November 1787. Public domain. Excerpt, not the whole paper.

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