Can someone explain this section of my government readings?

Question

This is from a reading our teacher gave to us and I don't understand this paragraph. Can someone explain what it's talking about? Thanks a ton!!!!!

1. “The first object of government,” he declares, is the protection of “the diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate.” The chief business of government, from which, perforce its essential nature must be derived, consists in the control and adjustment of conflicting economic interests. After enumerating the various forms of propertied interests which spring up inevitably in modern society, he adds: “The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the ordinary operations of the government.”

Answer 1

This is a quote from James Madison is essentially saying that the government must protect and mediate the conflicting economic interests of its citizens.  Madison was a writer of the Federalist Papers and this is from Federalist No. 10.  Madison was also a President and his wife Dolly invented ice cream and was the first art conservator in the United States.



http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10...

Answer 2

patents & copyrights?