1) Factions are so difficult to eliminate because people form opinions and groups because of the way they see things. Everybody sees things a little bit differently and people have a predisposition to surround themselves with like-minded people. Therefore people will form groups with people who see things the same way as they do and the government can not regulate or control these groups without taking away the rights of the people.
2) Factions can only be controlled by limiting and getting rid of the effects of them. A real life example of this happening is when a majority of people outvote a small group of people. The effects of the smaller faction are controlled because they were outvoted by the larger faction. A democracy is one of the best ways to control the effects of these factions because the majority almost always wins and outvotes the minority.
The Federalist Papers relates to the Bill of Rights because the Federalist Papers were actually the written document of the major opposition to the Bill of Rights. Since the constitution did not explictly say what the rights of the people were, some people wanted a document that said this while others feared that if there was a document with peoples' rights on it, in the future some people would interpret the document as the ONLY rights that people had. Eventually, the Bill of Rights was obviously passed despite the opposition to it by the same people who wrote the Federalist Papers.
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