The Federalist Papers: No. 10

Faction in politics is inevitable. 

There are two methods to alleviating it: 

The first is by removing its causes.
Liberty is to faction what air is to fire. People require liberty as much as they require air to live normally. Fire--which may or may not be good--also needs air to survive. Fire is faction, liberty is air.

The second is by controlling its effects.
It would be unwise to enforce the first method, and the second is impracticable. As long as the reason of man is capable of error, and he is at liberty to exercise it, then different opinions will be formed. It is the nature of man to have differences, so controlling the opinions to control the effects will more likely fail than succeed. This would ultimately lead to the failure of the system of government that we strive to achieve--a democracy.

This is based on what I understood of number 10 of the Federalist Papers. There was a lot that went into the overall discussion of where each political party—republican or democratic—stood in terms of faction. Supposedly, democracy is to the first method: that being that it would be impossible to sustain government by removing cause or liberty. Republican is to the second method: controlling the effects.

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