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So Aristotle, in a way, has discovered long before
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James Madison's famous article in ,
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the remedy for the control and containment, so to
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speak, of faction.
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You remember, many of you if not all of you who have read the
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Tenth Federalist Paper, that Madison outlines a scheme for
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an extended republic, he says, where numerous factions,
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in many ways, check and balance one another, compete with one
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another and therefore, avoid the dominance of a single
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faction leading to the kind of tyranny of the majority,
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the tyranny of the majority class.
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Aristotle's proposal for a mixture of oligarchy and democracy