Party Over Principle Leads to Tyranny
A faction-first mentality leads to tyranny. Put in more modern terminology, “faction first” means “party first.” In other words, looking at something as right or wrong based on who is doing it, rather than the Constitution. Thomas Gordon was...
The Danger of Factions: Nothing New Under the Sun
A “frightful despotism,” would be the result of an “alternate domination of one faction over another,” warned George Washington. He was joined – with similar warnings – by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Jefferson and many others....