Jun Zhang Both the Federalist Papers Numbers 10 and 51 are wrote by Madison and he talks about ways to deal with factions and the importance of having separation of powers in these two papers. Factions cannot be eliminated from the society, Madison argues in Federalist paper No.10, since factions are created from the differences in skills and properties owned by people, and people should have the freedom to have their own opinions. It is impractical to create social homogeneous as well -- although factions sometimes lead to conflicts on ideas, diversity is also very important to the development of society. Therefore Madison believes that we should control the damaging effects of factions instead of trying to remove the causes. Moreover, Madison thinks that majority factions are dangerous in the way that they only care about their own advantages and ignore the needs of those minority groups. Thus he argues it is …show more content…
51, Madison introduces the system of checks and balances to, again, emphasize the balance between political factions, in this case, the branches, in order to protect people’s rights. The government is structured upon the will of people so that it largely depends on people. However, the three branches should remain independent from each other, which is extremely important in order to make sure that no one branch would become too powerful. This is why the legislative branch must be divided into two parts, even though all the delegates there are elected by the people. Not only the federal government is being separated into three branches, there are different levels of government as well, so that powers are distributed among state governments, city governments, and local governments. In this way, more political factions are being created, which is a good thing -- theoretically the more factions the better according to Madison, since it helps making sure the separation of power and no one could seize too much power to form a