...must be prevented, .[89]or [referring to the opportunity] the majority, having such coexistent passion or interest, must be rendered, by their number and...concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression. Madison rules out another possible suggestion: If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide,...

...them to love their neighbors as themselves, which cannot be relied on to work in the United States ("we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control"), instead of trying to control the passions, especially acquisitiveness or greed, the state could direct...

...does have such a factious motive may be denied an opportunity to act when he says that such a majority "must be rendered, by their number and local situation,...concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression." In principle, therefore, he relies on the idea that a factious deed will be performed by a majority...

...interest from uniting a majority, or by rendering such a majority incapable of concerted action. But if "the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to...motives can be relied on as an adequate control." A large republic can control the effects of faction in both these ways. The larger the number of people...

...idealism mask self-interest. "If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide," says Madison, "we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control [against the emergence of factions]. They are not found to be such on the injustice and violence of...

...interest in a majority at the same time must be prevented, or the majority, having such coexistent passion or interest. must be rendered, by their number and...concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression" (No. 10. 81). Given the coincidence of "the impulse and the opportunity." Madison notes, "neither moral...

...Don't depend on religion or morality to restrain a passionate, self-interested majority faction either: "If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to...motives can be relied on as an adequate control." And there then comes a remnant of the notion of the increased immorality of groups that we found in...

...every case, be felt by a majority of the whole." When a majority is united, Madison bluntly states, "neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control."7 Thus, neither civic virtue, nor religion, nor attachment to community can prevent a majority...

...comes in his proclamation that for minority economic rights to be secured, "those without property. . .must be rendered, by their number and local situation, unable to concert and carry into effect their schemes of oppression." 7 In effect, Madison devises a plan that will crumple the big economic...

...of rights — and exhortation or moral fervor will be ineffective. Madison put the point this way: "We well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control." He urged instead a "policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives."22...