James Madison was a very intelligent man and one of the forefathers of our country. In Madison's Federalist Paper Number 10, he describes the need to control factions in the United States and how the government should do it. The Federalist papers were a key element in describing how to control the "factions" that were so dangerous to the young government, or so Madison thought. In Madison's article, he clearly lays out his ideas on the sources of factions, his feelings on democracy versus a republic, and how to control factions. For Madison, factions, or groups of citizens with malicious intentions toward the new government, pose a threat to the new government. the new government and it is impossible to find an acceptable solution. Madison sees both freedom and the idea of ​​having opposing views as the primary sources of factions. This also proves to be the reason why factions can never be completely eradicated. For Madison, there are “two methods of eliminating the causes of faction: the first, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving each citizen the same opinions, the same passions and the same interests. » (p. A21) Of course, both of these ideas are completely absurd because they are impossible to obtain. To abolish liberty, in the words of James Madison, would be “worse than disease” (p. A21) for the simple fact that to abolish liberty would be to abolish everything fought for in the American Revolution. Madison compares freedom to air in the sense that removing it would eliminate fire, factions, but would also kill all life, so basically it's a lose-lose situation. Madison's latest idea is basically to make everyone think homogeneously, which of course is impractical. As Madison says: “As long as man's reason remains fallible and he is free to exercise it, different opinions will be formed” (p. A22). Men will always have a difference of opinion because we are always influenced by reason. and self-love. Madison goes on to say that the causes of factions are "thus sown in the nature of man" (p. A22) and that all we can do is try to control factions but it is impossible to control them. get rid of it completely. The Federalist Journal continues on about Madison's feelings about a democracy rather than a republic being a better decision..