In the crisis-driven year that follows, Madison experiences a period of extraordinary creativity. He works out his ideas in a series of essays, developing the view that factions, springing from economic interest, ruin republicanism. He invents a solution: enlargement of the republic. Madison’s emerging vision dovetails with his ideal of friendship. He will create a government that can control and reduce the effects of faction, enabling friends to reason and deliberate without becoming enemies or creatures of self-interest.
