Federalist Papers No. 10

What is the main advantage of a well-constructed Union?

• Controlling the violence of faction

• Promoting popular governments

• Ensuring public and personal liberty

• Obviating the danger of faction

What are the mortal diseases under which popular governments have perished?

• Instability, injustice, and confusion

• Violence, faction, and corruption

• Public and private faith, and personal liberty

• Unsteadiness and injustice

What is a faction?

• A group of citizens united against the rights of other citizens

• A majority or minority of citizens acting in their own interest

• A political party in conflict with rival parties

• A common impulse of passion or interest

What are the two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction?

• Removing its causes and controlling its effects

• Abolishing liberty and giving everyone the same opinions

• Destroying the liberty and giving everyone the same passions

• Controlling its effects and giving everyone the same interests

Why is abolishing liberty to cure faction worse than the disease?

• Liberty is essential to political life

• Faction is essential to political life

• Liberty nourishes faction

• Faction is destructive to political life

What is the first object of government?

• To protect different and unequal faculties of acquiring property

• To encourage domestic manufactures

• To regulate various and interfering interests

• To hold the balance between creditors and debtors

What are the latent causes of faction?

• Diversity in the faculties of men

• Frivolous and fanciful distinctions

• Zeal for different opinions concerning religion

• All of the above

Why are a body of men unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time?

• Because they are biased and lack integrity

• Because they have conflicting interests

• Because they are not knowledgeable enough

• Because they are easily influenced by others

What are the different classes of legislators?

• Advocates and parties to the causes they determine

• Judges and parties to the causes they determine

• Creditors and debtors

• Landed and manufacturing classes

What is the most common and durable source of factions?

• Frivolous and fanciful distinctions

• Different and unequal distribution of property

• Zeal for different opinions concerning government

• Attachment to different leaders