The fear of factions was not, I think, the fear of political parties, but of what we would today call interest groups. The idea of disinterested representation was taken from the lawyer's customary role, not the parliamentarian's.

XREF: Connects to standard civics narratives about Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist debates over factions, refining that familiar picture.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 88