w the natural inclination of citizens to divide on issues of importance in a democratic system because, as he argued, "[t]he latent causes of faction are [] sown in the nature of man" (Turley, Online). He wanted to create a system that would force such divisions into the open where they could be discussed into majoritarian compromises. Thus, he believed the key was to deal with the inevitable formation of factions in a free government without suppressing liberty itself. Under a Madisonian model, factional interests and preferences would be coaxed to the surface of a legislative process in which they could be addressed only by majoritarian agreement (Turley, Online).
Thus, Madison argued that instead of suppressing the citizens' freedoms to form factions and groups, the path to stability was to create a republican government that would rely on elected officials to filter and refine the views of the public thereby reducing popular influence on government (Binder, Online). Moreover, he argued that such a republi
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