...Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage .... l3. See THE FEDERALIST No. l0, at 79 (C. Rossitci ed. i96ll ("But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of propeity. Those who hold, and those who arc without propeity. have ever formed distinct interests in...

...divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to cooperate for their...passions and excite their most violent conflicts. (Madison, Hamilton, and Jay 1961 1 1787], 58-59) The cure for the human vice of faction and the zeal...

...divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to cooperate for their...unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts."36 Here were a whole series of antagonisms; here were dozens of clusters of special interests,...

...factions. Indeed, so natural is the human propensity to party — man is by nature the party animal — that "where no substantial occasion presents itself...been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions." For Madison, then, not only certain particular parties (founded above all on religious opinion and...

...circumstances of civil society" (Madison 1961: 79). Madison notes that there are many bases of factions, "But the most common and durable source of factions...the various and unequal distribution of property." This conclusion leads Madison to a consideration of the role of the state: Those who hold and those...

...institutionalize this principle. James Madison expressed this idea clearly in his now famous Federalist 10: The most common and durable source of factions has...the various and unequal distribution of property.... The regulations of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation,...

...differences in religion, political preference, or attachment to different leaders, but that ". . . the most common and durable source of factions has...the various and unequal distribution of property." The elaborate structure of the United States Constitution was created to achieve two goals: to enable...

...inequalities of condition, meaning especially thereby inequalities of wealth and property. As Madison puts it, "the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property."67 While people differ in mathematical, musical, artistic, and athletic abilities, it is...

...mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for...unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts (Federalist #10, para. 6). Factions, according to Madison, have thus been the downfall of humankind...

...the United States, had this to say about the "sentiments" and beliefs of some of the interest groups: The most common and durable source of factions has...various and unequal distribution of property. Those who have and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are...