"I think it was Madison who wanted as many factions as possible so that no single faction could take power." Yahoo Answers
He considers them bad. He wrote Federalist No. 10, which talks entirely about how to get rid of factions and why they are one of the worst things that can happen to a government.
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James Madison in The Federalist No. 10
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire. James Madison says this in Federalist #10. It pretty much means like if you were to remove liberty would be to remove the air, which is essential to life.
James Madison was America's fourth president.
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The president was James Madison.
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IN the newspaper "the federalist" he wrote that no faction would be able to control the government because the USA is too big
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Madison defines a faction as "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community".