faction

Examples of faction in the following topics:

• "Extend the Sphere"

  • The question Madison answers, then, is how to eliminate the negative effects of factions.
  • Madison first assessed that there are two ways to limit the damage caused by faction: either remove the causes of faction or control its effects.
  • Madison argues that the only problem comes from majority factions, because the principle of popular sovereignty should prevent minority factions from gaining power.
  • He offers two ways to check majority factions: prevent the "existence of the same passion or interest in a majority at the same time" or render a majority faction unable to act.
  • Explain Madison’s view of the role of government in protecting America against factions

• John Randolph and the Old Republicans

  • When Virginia congressman John Randolph broke with Jefferson in 1806, his political faction became known as the "Old Republicans," or "quids."
  • Virginia congressman John Randolph of Roanoke was the leader of the "Old Republican" faction of Democratic-Republicans that insisted on a strict adherence to the Constitution and opposed any innovations.
  • This faction of of the Democratic-Republican party was an extreme vanguard of states' rights who wanted to restrict the role of the federal government.
  • Other "quid" factions existed in other states, and many had little or no connection at the federal level.
  • The New York and Pennsylvania "quid" factions had no connection with one other at the federal level; both supported President Thomas Jefferson.

• The Lecompton Constitution

  • The Lecompton Constitution, drafted by pro-slavery factions, was a state constitution proposed for the state of Kansas that rivaled that proposed by the Free Soiler faction.
  • Both the Topeka and Lecompton constitutions were placed before the people of the Kansas Territory for a vote, and both votes were boycotted by supporters of the opposing faction.

• Colonial Government

  • None of the colonies had stable political parties of the sort that formed in the 1790s, although each had shifting factions that vied for power.
  • For instance, there were often "country" and "court" factions representing those opposed to and in favor of, respectively, the governor's actions and agenda.
  • Massachusetts also had a strong populist faction that typically represented the province's lower classes.

• Jackson and the Democratic Party

  • The modern Democratic Party arose in the 1830s out of factions from the largely disbanded Democratic-Republican Party.
  • The modern Democratic Party was formed in the 1830s from former factions of the Democratic-Republican Party, which had largely collapsed by 1824.
  • After the disappearance of the Federalists after 1815 and the subsequent Era of Good Feelings (1816–24), a group of weakly organized political factions dominated the American political landscape until about 1828–32, when the modern Democratic Party emerged along with its rival, the Whigs.
  • The 1840s and 1850s were the heyday of a new faction of young Democrats called "Young America."
  • Polk, Franklin Pierce, and New York financier August Belmont, this faction broke with the agrarian and strict constructionist orthodoxies of the past and embraced commerce, technology, regulation, reform, and internationalism.

• The Bolsheviks

  • The Bolsheviks were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
  • The Bolsheviks were the majority faction in a crucial vote, and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • When the Provisional Government chose to continue fighting the war with Germany, the Bolsheviks and other socialist factions campaigned for stopping the conflict.
  • After the Bolshevik revolution, civil war erupted between the "Red" (Bolshevik), and "White" (anti-Bolshevik) factions.

• The Birth of Political Parties

  • It was nearly universally believed that the new republic ought to be free from "factions."
  • The first two political parties grew out of the early factions that had formed around the debate over ratification of the Constitutions.
  • The Federalist party, which had grown out of the Federalist faction supporting ratification, favored a powerful central government and an economy based on commerce and manufacturing.
  • The Democratic-Republicans, who arose out of the Anti-Federalist faction opposing ratification, favored a less-powerful central government and an economy that was built around farming and the trades.
  • Differentiate between factional splits and political parties in the early republic

• Range Wars

  • The Lincoln County Range War arose between two factions over the control of dry goods trade in the county.
  • The older, established faction was led by general store monopolist Murphy and his business partner, James Dolan.
  • However, eyewitness reports show that sheep were not brought into Pleasant Valley until 1885, two years after the feuding between the Tewksbury and Graham factions began.

• Colonies in Crisis

  • Neither faction sustained casualties during the revolt.
  • Leisler was convicted and executed, but the revolt left the colony polarized and bitterly split into two rival factions.

• Union Politics

  • The Proclamation was also immediately denounced by Copperhead Democrats, a more extreme wing of the Northern Democratic faction of the Democratic Party that opposed the war and hoped to restore the Union peacefully via federal acceptance of the institution of slavery.
  • Some Copperheads advocated violent resistance to the wartime effort, which greatly increased tensions between pro-war and anti-war factions.
  • A faction within the Republican Party, called the Radical Republicans, also opposed the war.
  • Radical Republicans were generally critical of President Lincoln, but he still appointed members of all political factions to his cabinet.