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  • By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest... The latent causes of faction are sown in the nature of man.

    "Federalist No. 10 (The Federalist Papers)". Essay by James Madison, November 23, 1787.
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