Hannah Paquette APUSHFederalist No. 10 Write Up12/3/13Factions, according to James Madison, are a group of citizens, regardless of their numbers or influence, that share a common goal or interest that affect the whole community, which can range from a national community to a local community. Some examples of factions today are the Blue Dog Coalition and the Trade Working Group. Madison firmly believes that factions are created due to the unequal distribution of all types of property, whether its money, land, or business. He proposes that the legislative system outlined in Article 1 of the Constitution can be used to overcome the effects of factions as well. If the faction with a destructive idea is a minority, then it simply cannot gain any momentum in Congress, since it will always be out voted by the majority. When the faction with a destructive idea is the majority it has to set aside its specific issues to not only focus on running the country, but also to secure the rights of citizens that they agreed to protect.A pure democracy is a small society where its citizens run the government themselves. A republic is a government where the citizens elect representatives to govern for them. Madison had serious problems with pure democracy: it could never work outside of a city, there was no protection against factions; they have never been stable enough to secure peoples security and property, or last a long time. Democracies also did not have a way to check factions. Republics, on the other hand, had a much smaller number of people representing different ideas, towns or cities, and interests. To get their interests brought up in a meeting, a citizen would have to communicate their ideas with their representative, which could lead to an improvement on the original idea. Also, if a corrupt politician ran for office, and was then elected, he or she would only be one voice among many and unable to accomplish their goals.