The patriots dominated it. They were rooting for Independence
Patriots dominated the Second Continental Congress.
The Patriots
Which political faction in the US congress believed in going to war with England in 1812 was necessary?
The judicial branch was intended as a check on the power of congress to write laws. Theoretically, a political faction could gain control of both houses of congress in sufficient numbers to supersede the veto power of the executive branch - such a faction-dominated congress could basically enact any law they decided to, including laws which (let's say) ended the executive branch, abolished elections, and amended the constitution to leave them and their appointed successors perpetually in power (versions of this kind of legalistic coup d'état have in fact happened in several nations in recent history). The judicial branch checks this through its power to overturn any law that contradicts the spirit and letter of the constitution. However, if the justices were subject to political influences, then the same political forces which allowed such a noxious faction to gain control of congress could be used to sway the opinions of the justices as well, defeating their primary purpose.
John Dickinson was a prominent figure in early American history and is often associated with the moderate faction of the Continental Congress. He was a member of the Colonial Assembly and later aligned with the Pennsylvania and Delaware legislatures. While he was a delegate to the Continental Congress and supported independence, he favored reconciliation with Britain over immediate separation, reflecting a more conservative and cautious political stance. Although he didn't fit neatly into modern political affiliations, he is often considered a Federalist due to his support for a stronger central government after the Revolutionary War.
A political faction is a group of people with a common political goal. This could be a group within a political party, or even a union.
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A political faction is presently an informal grouping of individuals, especially within a political organization, such as a political party, a trade union, or other group with some kind of political purpose.
faction
He refers to 'faction' as a political group of people.
The faction known as the War Hawks.
Vladimir I. Lenin was responsible for the Bolshevik movement in the early 1900s. He was the leader of a minority dissident faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, (RSDLP), a Marxist political party. At its party congress in 1903 in Brussels, he seized an opportunity to gain a temporary majority and named his minority faction Bolsheviks, which means majorityites in Russian. From then on the Bolsheviks were a separate faction with separate ideologies from the rest of the RSDLP. Soon it became an entirely separate political party in and of itself.