To Madison the faction means a group of people that have the same interest and. The factions are bad in Madison’s eyes because they cause friction against people’s interest and contravene on the rights of people. Factions are inevitable because people tend to gravitate towards people that are similar to them. The only two ways to get rid of factions are get rid of liberty ( and this is a “cure worse than the disease,” as Madison so rightly calls it. The other way to get rid of factions is to make every other person have the same interests, likes, and dislikes, and this is impossible. One big source of a faction is unequal distribution of property. I think Madison was right about factions but I think he needed to call it something else.
