And this woman who feeds on all that afflicts the French soul, who speaks of France only to describe it as debased, humiliated, soiled by imaginary vermin, this friend of Arab dictators, Austrians nostalgic for Naziism, and the factious of all countries, in short, enemies of her country, has, what's more, the nerve to present me as a representative of the anti-France.
Loss of respect of peers.
He warned that "[m]en of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people".
Back in America, "Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may by intrigue, by corruption or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests of the people," Madison feared.8 There would be "little avail to the people... if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood".
The kings of Sparta and the consuls of Rome prove also the factious consequences of dividing the executive magistracy".
The Lisbon Treaty, in essence a restyled version of the failed constitution, is the result of long negotiations among the factious states of Europe and is meant to address the complexities that have come with expansion.
It's clear that the factious nature of the nation state, the shape of the financial system, the depth of debt in which the nations are locked, and the seriousness of the ecological crisis we all face make the project of global economic interdependence difficult.
After the death of Henry V in 1422 the country was subject to the long and factious minority of Henry VI (August 1422 November 1437), during which the English kingdom was managed by the king's council, a predominantly aristocratic body.
What better show to test the waters of international partnership and trust than an epic tale of factious peers and class warfare?
Gustav was the son of a Swedish senator and of a noble family whose members had played a prominent part in the factious aristocratic politics of 15th-century Scandinavia.
And this is one of the particularly factious dynamics at the heart of gun politics.
