LAD 4- Federalist Papers #10

1. Why are factions so difficult to eliminate?

Factions are so difficult to eliminate because of the fact that in any situation different opinions will develop over the least bit of conflict or disagreement. It is here where the grouping of people who share these opinions occurs and it is here where they are so difficult to eliminate. This is simply due to the fact that people could never all share the same opinions because it is in their nature to disagree on them. This does not make it difficult to eliminate factions it makes it impossible. There is no way in which you could control a group’s thoughts or force them to think a certain way when it is against there very nature to do so.

2. If factions cannot be removed then how can they be controlled?

They only two ways to control factions would be to remove either their causes or their effects. To remove their causes could not be done because, once again, you can not control or remove human nature and human opinion. On top of that the only way to try and even discourage the effects of a faction would be to control the property of each individual and therefore stripping them of their basic unalienable rights. The only way to control their effects is to have the people elect representatives who then in turn make the decisions for them, which encourages decisions to be made for the good of the people they are put their to serve.