A faction is a group in government of individuals who share a common political purpose.
2. Are factions good or bad?
Factions are beneficial to government because they help to raise support for a group and their ideologies while restricting the ability for any one person or group to completely dominate a political scene.
3. Why are factions so difficult to eliminate?
Factions are so difficult to eliminate because, by nature, humans are social and group-oriented, and tend to congregate in numbers where they can find strength and unity. In order to remove factions, the liberties of the people to express their beliefs among one another must be infringed upon.
4. If factions cannot be removed then how can they be controlled?
Factions only need to be controlled when they are in the majority, since, under the constitution, it is impossible for a minority faction to obtain political power (as they would always get outvoted by the majority faction). If a faction is in the majority though, it can be controlled by a republic. The representative nature and election processes of the U.S. Constitution act as checks and balances for majority factions. Because of the size of the country and its diversity, it is extremely hard to simultaneously build national support for factitious beliefs across a majority of the states.
The topic of factions reminded me of the bipartisan divisiveness that American is experiencing in present day.
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