In federalist no. 10, what principle of u. s. government would the author- james madison- be most likely to suggest as a remedy for the presence of "factions"? a. bicameralism b. republicanism c. direct democracy d. individual rights

b. republicanism  

Explanation:

In Federalist 10, Madison asserts that the only ways to resolve the emergence of factions would be the creation of an ideology according to which a nation is governed as a republic, in which the head of state is indicated by non-hereditary methods, often by elections , that is, the solution Madison found for factionalism was republicanism. Madisson himself said that "a republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different perspective, and promises the cure for which we are seeking"

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: