...nature: "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man: and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity according to the different circumstances of civil society" (Madison 1961: 79). Madison notes that there are many bases of factions, "But the most common and durable...

...parties. The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society (Hamilton, Madison, and Jay 1938, 55). Madison suggests what later writers verify empirically: ascriptive...

...wrote, "the latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society."46 But whereas factionalism in Canadian politics operates on a large scale and in a formalized...

...agency. The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according...well of speculation as of practice; an attachment of different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions...

...and classes." Here, "sown in the nature of man," are the "latent causes of faction," including the "zeal for different opinions concerning religion,...other points, as well of speculation as of practice." The higher sort of disagreement that is Rawls's concern is, Madison suggests, traceable to these baser...

...operations of Government."22 Madison's argument included economic interests in the same category as "different opinions concerning religion, concerning...and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice."23 Far from being a neutral guardian of the common good, the Madisonian state was explicitly...

...truism: The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. . . . But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution...

...faction" are not created by governments 34 but are "sown in the nature of man." These include diversity of opinions "concerning religion, concerning government,...other points, as well of speculation as of practice." They also include "attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for preeminence and power,"...

...self-seeking." "The latent causes of faction are ... sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according...to the different circumstances of civil society," writes Madison in the Federalist Papers: A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning...

...parties. The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society."14 Thus, in the opinion of the Father of the American Constitution, politics springs inevitably,...