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Thank Snowe, Collins, McCain and Chaffee for opposing the nuclear option.

Urge Hagel, Spector, and Warner (who want to vote against the option but are being pressured to vote against their own convctions) to vote their conscience on this issue. Remind them of Madison's admomishments about the dangers of factions, including factions in the majority :

Federalist Papers Number 10

Some extracts, though the whole is definitely a must read.

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By a faction, 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.

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He then provides arguments that lead to the following conclusions:

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The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its EFFECTS.

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On controlling the runaway faction:

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If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote.

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From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.

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In the first place, it is to be remarked that, however small the republic may be, the representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guard against the cabals of a few; and that, however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of a multitude.

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