The Founding Fathers of U.S - The fear of factions

[Hitman47]

Can someone explain the dose of anti-factions and pro-factions


which do u believe in ?

Factions or no factions


and why the fear of factions when the founding fathers wrote the constitution of the U.S.A??

[Pete]

Can you provide a bit of background on this? I know that some US leaders of the late 18th Century were anti-party system, thinking that it would corrupt the politics, is that what you mean? Or is it something else?

-Pete

[Hitman47]

yea what you said :)

[Misodoctakleidist]

i dont know what 'the founding fathers' thought but personaly i think political parties are a bad idea, they do inevitably corrupt their members.

[Morpheus]

Madison and others postulated that society tends to fracture into different factions which fight with each other. They said that this is inevitable in a society with private property, but it might be avoidable in a society without property. Since these were all wealthy men they obviously didn't consider the later. They argued that democracy was a bad idea because the poor people's faction(s) would outvote the other factions, seize control of the government and ruin the whole thing. So democracy has to be limited to prevent the poor from voting to take away the rich's property. I encourage you to read Federalist Paper #10, it's eye-opening.