...to the problem of a faction that "consists of less than a majority of people." From this, he said, "relief is supplied by the republican principle, which...enables the majority to defeat its sinister views." A faction with minority support might "clog the administration," might even "convulse the society,"...

...render them all subservient to the public good. . . . The causes of faction cannot be removed. . . . Relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects. . . . Neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control.5 It is but a step...

...it? The answer to these questions comes from an observation: "The causes of faction cannot be removed relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects" (10:80). "To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at...

...liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction.... : James Madison concluded that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that...be sought in the means of controlling its effects". 32 Mr. Madison was adamant that the answer to controlling the effects of factions did not lie in "reducing...

...basis for inequality of privilege. 38. Federalist, X. 39. "The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and...be sought in the means of controlling its effects." Federalist, X. 40. Federalist, X. 41. Debate of June 6th, Documents, 162. 42. "The smaller the society,...

...the necessary and ordinary operations of government.... The interference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that...only to be sought in the means of controlling its effect.... Madison understood that economic factions will attempt to use government to redistribute...

...liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction....31 James Madison concluded that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that...only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects".32 Mr. Madison was adamant that the answer to controlling the effects of factions did not...

..."creditor class," which was the minority faction, became too strong? Not to worry, Madison said. "If faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle." He meant debtors being more numerous could use majority vote. Even the Senate was somewhat based on...

...constitutional balance between factions. Madison accepted that 'the causes of faction cannot be removed and the relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects'. He also agreed, with Hobbes, that moral or religious motives cannot be relied on as an adequate control....

...by faction. In Federalist 10 Madison dismissed the danger posed by minority faction by arguing that if "a faction consists of less than a majority, relief...the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote."175 However, by 1792, in an unsigned essay written for the National Gazette, Madison indicated...