L.A.D. #5: Federalist #10

1.) Why are factions so difficult to eliminate?
-The factions were groups people united for a certain cause of interest, and were commonly "adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." One of the main methods thought to remove a faction was by removing their cause or controlling what every person thought, granting them the same opinions and interests. This goal was fairly unattainable because of the variety of opinions that would exist due impart to the liberty granted in the community and diversity was difficult to compete with. Different opinions involving religion, government, leadership, and other topics had separated people into different factions, and were more likely to "vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good."

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

-Keeping a common opinion among them all was thought to have been a method to control these factions. It soon became evident that the causes of the formation of these parties could not be removed, the only compensation for putting up with these independent minded parties was by acquiring control of the effects the factions brought about. The majority could also be deemed by the government unfit to continue with its support of a certain idea or topic, the faction could "...lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together...in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful." The republican government also decided that "If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control" involving certain factions and their people.