The Court had become factious because the judges were following their personal ideologies instead of upholding the Constitution. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : A factious group was trying to undermine the government. ,factious quarrels. From Dictionary.com.
Van Buren's opposition to the Adams administration has been called factious and unpatriotic. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Burke, in an evil moment for himself and for Ireland, had lent himself in 1785 to what Mr. Morley called the "factious" and. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
In proofreading I struck out "factious;" as needless, and as a generalization on insufficient premises. From Wordnik.com. [From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life] Reference
(except Kentucky and Missouri,) have never been even charged with this kind of factious commotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.] Reference
Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse!. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
After giving an account of a meeting of "the factious chiefs" in. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
This however was immediately laid hold of by some of the factious. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
The factious spirit and the oppression of the ruling caste did the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
And there is great unwisdom in setting up factious opposition to the fiat of. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
Stuart, and he was regarded by the Government of his day as "a factious person.". From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
The factious spirit which prevailed among them was discovered at the very opening of the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
The factious person to whom Knox alludes was Robert Logan, who was arrested by order of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
It has been a hobby for demagogues, and a fire-brand in the hands of factious disorganizers. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
The betters are the factious noise of the alley, or the gamesters beadsmen that pray for them. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Beside this arch-villain, the Guise, aspiring and factious though he be, falls into a secondary place. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
The usual double-dealing, and factious contention of party, succeeded this painful scene in the council. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Many were learned and respectable men; neither factious in their principles nor violent in their passions. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
At this time, says Wood, Neville was "esteemed to be a man of good parts, yet of a factious and turbulent spirit.". From Wordnik.com. [The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford] Reference
This, perhaps, ill affected and factious men may spread among the people, when the prince only makes use of his just prerogative. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
Then the demon of mischief entered into the heart of Eurylochus, a factious knave, who had more than once thwarted the counsels of. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
Caesar, and forbade to give tribute; when the Apostles were charged with being pestilent, turbulent, factious, and seditious fellows. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Fox became in succession fierce, factious, and half frantic; still his great adversary stood on the vantage ground of law, and was imperturbable. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
They return to their tribunal, and on purpose commanded one of the most factious of the people, who stood in their view, to be called upon by name. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
It is weak when suspicion and factious opposition prevail; or when the subordinate princes exercise their authority without respect to the general good. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom of Heaven; What is it?] Reference
On their part ministers supported their measures by tracing the history of the colonies, and exhibiting their uniform disposition to factious resistance. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Unwilling to struggle longer against the mean personalities and factious opposition of his own party in Congress, he tendered his resignation to Mr. Madison. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Pagan nations, in a single instance, been actuated by any motive save the restless, factious determination to sink one tyrant for the sake of elevating another?. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880] Reference
The station doesn't go anywhere, but the new show's factious crew and the flux of intergalactic visitors (some from the Enterprise) make for plenty of adventure. From Wordnik.com. [More Of The Final Frontier] Reference
A nation which endures factious domestic division is exposed to disrespect abroad, and one party, if not both, is sure sooner or later to invoke foreign intervention. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
So that all impartial men, in some measure, condemned the acts, and seemed to detest both the factious men who framed them, and the method by which they had been promoted in the province. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
More than this, the restless, the factious, the discontented began to link their fortunes to a party whose triumph would involve confiscation of the bloated wealth of the only rich class in France. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
Instead of snatching at occasions to ally himself with O'Connell, who was in opposition to every Government, and to embarrass the Whigs in a factious party-spirit, he showed a marked respect for principle. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
It was a cry raised against an executioner -- a cry of which one could honorably be the organ -- and not these howlings of factious hypocrisy, of a mass of unknown people, the dregs of the mud and sewers of Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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