...political factions that resulted from and fed these conflicts wracked them. Madison wished to replace "[a] zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points,"21 with the more mundane concerns of property and commerce. Consequently, Madison envisioned...

...passions. Thus, 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...religion, concerning government, and many other points . . . have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered...

...of faction," Madison tells readers, "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." Diversity was everywhere, A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government,...

...put it in Federalist No. 10, "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; ... A zeal for different opinions concerning religion,...ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; . . . have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered...

...division: 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...zeal for different opinions concerning religion... or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have,...

...democrats when he reflected that the causes of faction are "sown in the nature of man," and "everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society."25 In like fashion, Young looks warily for rational consensus, and rarely finds it. Madison...

...different quantities, through different occupations. Even if people share identical material interests, "a zeal for different opinions concerning religion,...other points, as well of speculation as of practice" inclines them to mutual animosity.14 (Remember that people who share similar idioms may employ those...