A faction is a group of people of people who are in support for something or are against something (Adair, p90). It is formed due to shared beliefs by the people; mostly it is considered as a political organization. According to this federalist’s paper, a faction is believed to limit the liberty of some individuals and therefore go against the constitution (Ball, p56). The best way to deal with factions is to completely remove the causes of factions or deal with the effects. The one issue that stands out is that people should not be allowed to have similar interests as this will completely do away with the factions however this completely goes against the constitution that allows people the freedom of opinion and assembly (De Pauw, p77).
In federalists 51;
In order to establish a separation of power among the departments in the government, there has to be balances and delegation (Cohler, p39). This is to ensure liberty of every department for maximum and better solutions. Each department should have its own performance will and should have very little agency from the external forces (Epstein, p22). The members of these departments should also be very independent of members of any other department (Furtwangler, p65). This means that those who run the departments are not to be influenced at all. The members should have proper technical qualifications to lead the departments. It is not possible to give each department equal power. This means that the legislature should be into two different branches that have very little influence and contact with each other.
This would lead to some challenges as it requires more finances to have the departments running differently without any interactions (Bernstein, p12). The separation of the legislature is to be done democratically by an election, this allows for fairness and transparency.
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