y or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interest of the community (Wills 43).
Madison and the other Framers feared the influence of factions on the body politic, understandable given that he defined a faction as
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