[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING post. OUTSTANDING history. OUTSTANDING analysis of current events.

HOORAY Jacquerie

Thanks.

[Chewbarkah]

In one of his Publius essays, James Madison argues that factionalism will be controlled in the new republic by the sheer number of different combinations that will coalesce around particular issues and interests. Unfortunately, this is exactly the mechanism that powers the Second Model cited in the post. “Parties” evolved and grew by aggregating sets of interests, sometimes for matters of principle, often for venal exploitation of governmental power for personal advantage. Once the combinations are in place, they find that cooperation against the people is more fruitful than competition, tend to reduce in number to a singularity, dedicated to sustaining itself through every means. That is where we are now. What is the constitutional answer to this tendency?