Madison begins the paper by supporting the constitution as the capable of controlling the damaged and the violence caused by factions- groups of people who gather together to protect and promote their economic and political perspective. These factions are random, but regularly they are against the public interest and violate the rights of other. Madison believed that a “well-constructed” united nation would end with the violence of faction, a "dangerous vice" in popular governments. In the paper he states two ways of removing the causes: Destroy the liberty essential to their existence. This remedy would be worse than the disease. The second method was to give everyone the same opinions, passions, and interests. . These two ways were impossible because the major source had always been the unfair and unequal distribution of property. It lead to the only relief was by controlling it effects: the constitution, which would make sure that the power of factions is balanced. …show more content…
According to James, each branch of the government should be mostly independent. No one branch should have too much power. If it was probably followed, citizens would select the president, the legislators, and the judges. Dividing the power helps to control the abuse of it, but cannot be divided equally. James believed that conflicts of interests are innate in human nature. He wanted to avoid a situation where one group controlled the decisions. This brought the issue of tyranny of minority and majority. Madison trying to minimize this issue, relied on the sociological structure of the