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Causes of faction
The danger
The remedy
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A worked example built for the GraphMy launch, from the public-domain text of The Federalist No. 10 (James Madison, 1787). Madison's argument maps cleanly onto a knowledge graph. The CAUSES of faction sit in one cluster: liberty and human nature make faction inevitable, and the unequal distribution of property is its most common source. The DANGER sits in another: a majority faction is the graver threat, and a pure democracy has no way to check it, putting the public good and the rights of citizens at risk. The REMEDY is the third: a large, representative republic refines public views through elected representatives and dilutes any single faction across a wider sphere of interests. 'Faction' is the bridge concept that every thread runs through. The one tension the graph surfaces: removing liberty would cure faction, but the cure is worse than the disease.
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