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…showed last 75 words of 611 total…come about because of factions. Madison devoted an entire paper, called Federalist Paper Number 10, to describe factions and why we, the people of the United States, should become a republic. He wanted everyone to know that factions would not have enough power to overthrow the government, if we used the special form of democracy, known as a republic. Factions are very important in government and Washington and Madison tried to warn about their bad outcomes