...views. The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modem legislation, and involves the spirit of party and...faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of govemment.12 The views of Myrdal and Madison are significantly different. Myrdal is seeking to detect...

...religious factions. This economic competition will be peaceful because, when properly regulated — and the regulation of "these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation" — everyone (or, as Locke would have it, everyone except the idle and quarrelsome) will prosper to...

...his famous paragraph in Federalist 10 describing the sources of faction with a revealing observation: "The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation." He then proceeded to reflect on the reasons why all such acts were susceptible to the pull of faction....

...religious factions. This economic competition will be peaceful because, when properly regulated—and the regulation of "these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation"—everyone (or, as Locke would have it, everyone except the idle and quarrelsome) will...

...task of modern Legislation" was to regulate "these various and interfering interests," the task itself "involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of Government."22 Madison's argument included economic interests in the same category as "different opinions...

...discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, and many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized...faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government. This passage is significant in light of the political climate, in which there were...

...a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a monied interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity...interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation."81 Federalist and Anti-Federalist, patrician and plebeian generally concurred that property...

...are debtors fall under a like distinction. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, with many lesser interests grow up of necessity...interfering interests forms the principal task of modem legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations...

...the Madisonian solution and to a very large extent the modern pluralist solution: As Madison put it, 'The regulation of these various and interfering interests...the necessary and ordinary operations of government" (Madison 1961a:79). What he meant was that factions could be tolerated in government so long as competition...

...interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest," and many lesser ones grow up "of necessity in civilized nations, and divide...classes, actuated by different sentiments and views." The word "class" thus applies to the division between bankers and planters, or manufacturers and shipowners....