The Effects of a Factous Spirit on Public Administrations

By a faction I understand a number of citizens united and actuated by some common impulsive passion or of interest. There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction, the one by removing its causes, the other by controlling its effects. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an element without which it instantly expires. The most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations; divide them into