LAD #5: Federalist #10

1. Factions are so difficult to eliminate because of their connection to the inevitability of human animosity and liberty. Factions are tied to how each human has his or her own bias, opinion, or stance based on an issue and each holds the right or liberty to that notion. The only way these factions could be removed if people removed people's liberty and took away their freedom to determine their own opinion, which goes against the idea of what government should represent. Also, the only other way would be to make everyone join the same faction or believe in the same idea, which is also impossible as human nature is to give each human his or her unique opinion on a topic which will make inevitably different factions within government. So therefore factions are so impossible to rid off because they are tied to an idea which government is based on and can not rid of either.

2. Factions can only be controlled by one of two ways, either making everyone believe the faction's ideas or vice verse, which is implausible by human nature, or by checking the faction's power through democracy. Through the vote a minority faction can be suppress by the majority, making sure it doesn't oppress the government. In the case of the majority faction a pure democracy is ineffective, whereas a well-structured republic is able to control the faction. Through a republic built on happy mediums, which make sure those representing the governed have the best state of mind for governing as well as the best correlation between national and local objections the faction can be controlled. By opening government away from smaller and more distinct sections, the possibility of a smaller, but still a majority, faction becomes more real as it can institute its oppressive ideas without much resistance. Within a republican government these smaller and more effective majority factions are able to be controlled by the broad representation of a voting people. All together, republicanism provides the most effective means to control the inevitable faction which may challenge the rights of the governed.