Federalist Paper Number 10 gives an explanation how different factions in the United States are inevitable without destroying liberty or forcing everyone to have the same opinion. However, he calls these factions a "Dangerous vice" and were based on different groups of people fighting for their own interests. This document sets the basis for a multi-political party United States rather than a one party state. This allows for there to be multiple opinions within the government that allows everyone to be represented.
"There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests."
"In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government. And according to the degree of pleasure and pride we feel in being republicans, ought to be our zeal in cherishing the spirit and supporting the character of Federalists."
Federalist Paper 51 summarizes division of power between branches of government in order to prevent any one from gaining too much power. He outlines how each branch can check the other's power, while still maintaining independence from one another. This prevents one branch of government from gaining too much power and dominating the rest.
"But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
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