A faction is a group of people who are in support for something or are against something (Adair, p90 Factions are formed due to common interest by people to be more precise shared belief. It is sometimes considered to be a political organisation. It is considered unconstitutional as written in an article by Ball in the federalist paper, as it is considered to go against people’s liberty.
Factions are the hardest things to eliminate, since the people who form it have a common goal or interest thus the best way of handling it is from the root cause. That way one deals with the effects and the faction as a whole. Amongst the reasons of eliminating a faction is the fact it can be a source of violence. This clearly implies that it is somehow or somewhat not right for people to have common interest this goes against the constitution that allows people the freedom of opinion and assembly. The constitution clearly outlines that people have freedom of opinion regardless of whether it is similar to that of another person or not. It would be impossible to ensure that people do not have similar opinions without oppressing them.
This means it would be easier to control the extent to which factions are allowed to go (Bernstein, p77). In the essence that they do not lead to physical or mental injury to anyone then they should be allowed, however should their efforts result in people getting hurt, then that constitutional right is taken away. Factions at times are sources of great revolutions that speak against social and political evil.
In federalists 51;
Federalists 51 are all about liberty for all, every department and better solutions for all people and situations. This can only be achieved through separation of power in the government. Cohler clearly states “In order to establish a separation of power among the departments in the government, there has to be balances and delegation”. Whereas Epstein states that Each department should have its own performance will and should have very little agency from the external forces. A member of one department should only deal with issues of his department and cannot deal with issues of another department, thus each department should be very independent of the other. Thus as a department you should stand on your ground amd be sober enough to avoid influence from any source within and without the discussed structure. Qualifications of the department leader should match the role each leader plays simce there are no two departments that have the same level of authority with each other. Therefore the legislature should have two different branches independent of each other, little influence and contact with each other that is.
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.
The government is based on all the power being surrendered by the people to a few of their representatives. The government is subdivided into two major parts or what is termed as the upper and lower house. The subdivisions are also based on the double security that is required for the people (Ball, p50). This is also meant to ensure that the society is guarded against oppression from the elected rulers but to ensure that one part of the government does not become unjust to the other part of the society.
Work cited
Adair, Douglass. "The Tenth Federalist Revisited" and "'That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science': David Hume, James Madison and the Tenth Federalist". Fame and the Founding Fathers. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998. ISBN 978-0-86597-193-6 New York: WW Norton & Co, 1974 ISBN 978-0-393-05499-6
Ball, Terence. The Federalist with Letters of "Brutus". Cambridge University Press: 2003. ISBN 978-0-521-00121-2
Bernstein, Richard B. Are We to Be a Nation? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0-674-04476-0
Cohler, Anne. Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988.ISBN 978-0-521-36974-9
