The Union outcontrols state factions

The Union’s greater size and structure make factious combinations harder to form, coordinate, and spread than within the individual States.

The federal Constitution usefully divides authority by sending great and aggregate interests to the national government and local and particular interests to state legislatures.

A well-constructed Union tends to break and control the violence of faction, making it a safeguard against domestic faction and insurrection.

When a faction includes a majority, popular government can let it sacrifice the public good and others’ rights to its ruling passion or interest.

The Union’s greater size and structure make factious combinations harder to form, coordinate, and spread than within the individual States.

A republic, which uses representation, offers a cure for faction that a pure democracy lacks.

A pure democracy, with citizens assembling and governing in person, can admit no cure for faction and is prone to turbulence, contention, insecurity, and property violations.

A republic, which uses representation, offers a cure for faction that a pure democracy lacks.

The mischiefs of faction can be cured only by removing its causes or by controlling its effects.

The latent causes of faction are sown in human nature and are activated by religion, politics, leadership rivalries, and unequal property.

The latent causes of faction are sown in human nature and are activated by religion, politics, leadership rivalries, and unequal property.

It is impracticable to make every citizen hold the same opinions, passions, and interests, because human reason is fallible and unequal property interests arise naturally.

The latent causes of faction are sown in human nature and are activated by religion, politics, leadership rivalries, and unequal property.

A faction is a group of citizens, majorities or minorities, united by passion or interest adverse to the rights of others or the community’s permanent aggregate interests.