Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. "By a faction, I understand 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." —James Madison, Federalist No. 10 Rewrite this sentence in your own words.

Answer 1

A faction means that there is a number of citizens that the could be a minority or a majority but are relevant for what they think. The reason they are united is that they share common interests. There is a major purpose that made them gathered in the first place. And they can have differences with other groups, but all of them must be respected, knowing that beyond any particular interest, there should be just one: the nations best interest.

Federalist N.-10 is an essay that was written by James Madison as part of the Federalist Papers. He understood that there were factions as part of human nature and those factions formed alliances that sometimes worked against the public interest. So in this paper, he questions how to prevent those risks.