James Madison’s Federalist #10is a classic essay about this. He discusses the dangers of faction, “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, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community,” and how one might mitigate them.
James Madison’s Federalist #10 is a classic essay about this. He discusses the dangers of faction, “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, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community,” and how one might mitigate them.