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James Madison's Analysis

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According to James Madison, what constitutes a faction is the different opinions and beliefs of a certain group of people have. In the quote “Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets,” is referring that the main distinction between the two is retention of property that is owned so therefore he feels that it should be dealt with in two ways, by either fixing the root of the problem or to control the effects. Of those two ways he indicated that you either had to take away the freedom from the factions (“liberty is to faction what air is to fire”) or to have everyone think correspondingly. Both ideas were insufficient because you can’t take away the freedom from the people and you

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