...the United States, had this to say about the "sentiments" and beliefs of some of the interest groups: The most common and durable source of factions has...various and unequal distribution of property. Those who have and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are...

...which contributed to and were shaped by inequalities. As early as Federalist No. 10 Madison noted that "the most common and durable source of factions has...the various and unequal distribution of property." In this fact he saw continuing need that law intervene: "The regulation of these various and interfering...

...large number of interests and the great expanses of distance and time. Because Madison believed that "the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property,"172 his answer to the 169Daniel A. Farber & Philip P. Frickey, Law and Public Choice: A Critical...

...animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts (Federalist #10, para. 6). Factions, according to Madison, have thus been the downfall of humankind...

...Madison again uses the language of fire when he argues that "the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions, and excite their most violent conflict." Madison makes use of these J20 metaphors to reinforce his principal thesis that faction...

...are occasionally fanciful and frivolous causes of internal disturbances but he is quick to add that 'the most common and durable source of factions has...the various and unequal distribution of property." Indeed, Madison's use of the phrase "most common and durable" is so "clear and concise" Beard (1945,...

...originating in interest derived primarily from relations of property." Madison, who recognized that "the most common and durable source of factions has...the various and unequal distribution of property," also acknowledged (in the same paragraph) that the kindling of "unfriendly passions" was linked to...

...valid restriction, moreover, is consistent with the argument he does make in Federalist No. 10 that "the most common and durable source of factions, has...the various and unequal distribution of property" (1988a, 44). These points suggest that despite his focus on mitigating the effects of factions, Madison...

...interests and representative government came from the other side in the debate over the Constitution. "Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society," Madison wrote in Federalist No. 10, echoing the opposition. "Those who are creditors, and those who...

...animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts." Lacking important or "substantial" reasons for disagreement and the formation of factions, trivial...