Why does the American form of government work?

First of all, the different factions in the US create different views on topics. Instead of being a one minded state, our government takes many ideas from different factions. Our government has multiple options to solve one problem. Second, even though our government is centralized, it still gives minor power to the state government. It also lets the US citizens vote for government officials, so the citizens get the best representation. Third, the government is divided into three departments. Each department is dependent on each other, in order to make sure that one department doesn't gain all the power. While it is split up, our government is unified and centralized, meaning that a lot of power is put in those departments. If we don't like how the government is handling our grievences, then when election times come around, we can elect new members of congress, or a new president.

Our government works because of those three ideas: different factions create diversity in views,  give power to the people while still maintaining a powerful centralized government, and our government is split up into three departments.

Section: It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

Madison is saying that we cannot control the effects of the factions because that would be an infringement on their liberty. But in the end of this article, he argues that we have to control the effects of the factions without making the government a uniform government. He is saying that factions divide the government and split up opinion. To have a strong state we must remove this.

Section:In the extended republic of the United States, and among the great variety of interests, parties, and sects which it embraces, a coalition of a majority of the whole society could seldom take place on any other principles than those of justice and the general good; whilst there being thus less danger to a minor from the will of a major party, there must be less pretext, also, to provide for the security of the former, by introducing into the government a will not dependent on the latter, or, in other words, a will independent of the society itself.

Since there are so many interests, in a republican society the coalition of the majority cannot side with anything other than justice or good. The majority shouldn't be dependent on the minority, and it should be given more power in government.