On another note, they predicted the election of Obama...not as a black...but as having the votes of the gimmees via blocks.
Read 55 Men and the Constitution. It will give you the best idea of their thoughts. Paperback is cheap and it should be used in schools.
Back when the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists were debating how to move the post revolutionary war ‘America’ confederacy to a federal republic, “blocks” were called “factions.”
Even then they did not want a democracy.