How Madison Proposes to Solve the Problem of Factions History Essay
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Through the Federalist Papers, Madison concerned the governing challenges of the new democracy and indicated how the Constitution presented solutions to these challenges. One of the primary challenges in these regards was the issue of factionalism. Madison described factionalism as, “a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community” (Madison).