Fed 10

• Fed 10 by Madison

  • factions lead to civil conflict (stops stasis)
  • democracies have more problems to factions
  • leads to people abandoning democracies because lack of security
  • ”solution to factions”
• Faction: citizens who are driven by a common impulse of passion or interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens

  • leaders can use diversity to create factions and rise to power by venting of a majority at the cost of a minority: populism
• Methods for curing factions

  1. remove the causes:
  2. remove factions which means remove liberty
  3. make everyone the same opinions which is not possible
  4. there is always a preference to ourselves
  5. the thing we like are not always equal
  6. causes of faction are sown into human nature
  7. control the effects (symptoms): laws that control the effects of factions

  • promote individualism
  • make the majority’s number and local situation prevents from coming together \
• Solution to factions

  • republic: representatives; promises the cure. To te threat of tyranny of the majority
  • problem with republics:
  • In large republics reps develop their own interests and forget about the people
  • reps represent the majority which can harm the minority
  • Solution: extended republic
  • consists the national gov and state gov
  • Small factions are used to reach compromises and to limit one faction from gaining power
• The impeachment power of congress

  • comes from Article I (section 2-3) of the constitution
  • impeachment -> removal by majority vote from rep (jury) and 2/3 of senate (judge)
  • Fed 65 says that not necessarily impeachment lead to trial and conviction