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"By a fraction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."

—James Madison, Federalist No. 10

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Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

"By a fraction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."

—James Madison, Federalist No. 10

Rewrite this sentence in your own words.