They serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the
place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community,
and according to the alternate triumphs of different parties to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-conceived and
incongruous projects of faction rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plan, digested by common councils and
modified by mutual interests.