Political faction

Contrary to these political figures’ many fear, their numerous hopes for America was what really called people to their unlike causes. Hamilton 's ambitious hopes for the United States were ultimately to be like Britain. His interests were surrounding the economy and industrial status of the United States. First and foremost, he wanted to increase trade with Britain (MP 163). Although this meant violating the Treaty of Alliance that American had signed in 1778, aligning them with France.…

former teacher Brunetto Latini in Canto XV, Dante laments: “In the bright life above…I came into a valley and lost my way, before my age had reached its ripening time. I turned my back on the place but yesterday…” Through his time in the Florentine political sphere, Dante was no stranger to the severity of this sentence, having voted to exile fifteen prominent politicians just two years before his own exile. At best, as argued by Guy P. Raffa in his article “Dante’s Poetics…

Throughout history, political trends seem to repeat themselves, especially when it comes to political parties. A common political trend in the U.S. is a concept known as divided government, in which one party controls the White House and the other controls Congress. It happens almost every election, and is occurring now, with Obama, a Democrat, in office, and the majority party in Congress being the Republicans. Along those same lines, a previous trend is reoccurring once again. “Radical…

Now, how many of you know who this guy is? Uncle George, our first president. In 1796, in Washington’s farewell address, he mentioned four separate times. Do not make political parties. They will create geographical stereotypes and divide the country politically “They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation- the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.”…

to create political communities that safeguard themselves against the injustice of the strong through enacting their own laws and dictating what is just (359a). Similarly, Thucydides illustrates that the fear of a violent death from faction or subjugation propelled early Greeks from fertile lands to migrate to Athens, the coast populations to join together with Minos to expel the pirates and form colonies, and for the Peloponnesians to coalesce under Agamemnon (1.2; 1.7; 1.9). Political…

George Washington conceptualized the presidency by believing that government must serve the people’s interest rather than benefiting themselves. For that reason, he despite the idea of an ideal party. He feared that political parties would benefit their own self-interesting instead of uniting each other. In such case, Washington asserted that the executive have to be impartial by noting that “even respectable character’ contemplated monarchy ‘without horror’ if it would rescue the nation from an…

I argue that the creation of political parties in the United States Congress both addresses and enhances the collective action issues known as the prisoner’s dilemma, agency loss, and the tragedy of the commons, due to their constant clashes of ideological ambitions. The formation of Congress was most likely the first act of collective action before the official constitution was drafted. Two opposing sides, one the heavily populated states argued for a legislative body based on population. And…

minorities, organized labour, and progressive reform. The party was first named by Andrew Jackson, who changed it from the Democratic-Republican Party. The democratic party has been around for a very long time, so long in fact that it is the oldest political party in the USA and one of the oldest in the world. The origins of this party dates back to 1790 when Thomas Jefferson and James Madison created it to oppose the rise of the Federalist party lead by Alexander Hamilton, who believed…

Separation with equality in our government, as well as in multiple different aspects of life has been a hot button political issue in our republic for many years. Since the end of the Jim Crow Laws that demoralised this country's founding principles, an overwhelming amount of scholars, judges, and other governmental and non-governmental officials have agreed that Separate but equal is; as former US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Roberts put it “Inherently unequal.” Yet, this archaic platform…

are people in an individualistic society prepared to consider the problems of others as their own? This is a crucial question for society since it places the legitimacy of many social institutions and political structures in question. Whoever accepts that individualism is a fact will consider political life to be an incessant clash of interests on the part of people who are only in it for the sake of personal power or an increase in personal fortune. While they may be fine, responsible people in…