Read this passage from the farewell address George Washington wrote at the end of his presidency. The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

–Farewell address,
George Washington,
1796

What is the topic of this passage?

the Cabinet
the national debt
political parties
westward expansion