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Garry Wills is a noted critic of Madison's argument in Federalist No. 10.

In his book Explaining America, he adopts the position of Robert Dahl in arguing that Madison's framework does not necessarily enhance the protections of minorities or ensure the common good.

Instead, Wills claims: " Minorities can make use of dispersed and staggered governmental machinery to clog, delay, slow down, hamper, and obstruct the majority.

But these weapons for delay are given to the minority irrespective of its factious or nonfactious character ; and they can be used against the majority irrespective of its factious or nonfactious character.

What Madison prevents is not faction, but action.

What he protects is not the common good but delay as such ".