In Federalist Paper #10, Publius, the pen name for the chief architect our Constitution, James Madison, addresses the concern of factions in a society. “Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction…By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
A More Perfect Union (Warriors 125, Nuggets 101)
