In our Founders’ view, faction was the disease. Their cure was a government of checks and balances and separation of powers. The Founders understood that in such a complicated system, policies that won the support of only narrow factions would be frustrated while policies that could attract support across the lines that usually divide us would be far more likely to succeed.
Today’s politics prove—in a regrettably negative sense—the soundness of the Founders’ understanding as well as the effectiveness of their structural defense. The Founders expressly designed a government that would frustrate those who attempt to use it to serve narrow factional aims. Our contemporary politics are rife with excessive partisanship and special interest influence and the result is the very result the Founders intended: Frustration for all.
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