The Federalist Papers are eighty five letters written to newspapers during the late 1780s by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay with the intent to urge a ratification of the U.S Constitution. Madison wrote about two thirds of theses essays. The paper that interest me is federalist 51: "But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angles, no government would be necessary".
The reason why I picked this quote is because as Madison I also agree that we need a government because we are not angels, a government that would protect the liberty of people, one which represents the liberties that we the people want.
I agree that all countries need a government because we are not angles, people have different point of views and it would be chaos if no one would be in charge of the country. The government that we choose should represent us; the government should be able to control the governed and also to control itself.
From federalist 10 the quote that i picked is: "There are two of curing the mischief of faction,the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects".
According to Madison, the only two ways to remove in which the causes of faction can be be removed, by destroying the citizen's liberties and the second is impossible. The causes of faction is part of the human nature of a man.
I believe that there is always conflict withing an organization and that to remove faction is impossible. We have to live with the effects and causes of faction and the government should be able to help control the causes of these factions.
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