You use your math the way a drunken man uses a lamppost: support rather than illumination. You take numbers, sprinkle them with your opinion, and hope people will take them at face value. Many people don't.
And here you prove that you haven't. I've voiced an opinion of Madison, that is true, but I've never voiced an opinion of Webster on the issue.
But on Chase and Madison and a whole host of others you have opined to the skies, claiming bias and what not.
I always liked that quip too, but it hardly applies when anyone can work the very simple math involved.
You take numbers, sprinkle them with your opinion, and hope people will take them at face value.
3/4ths is larger than 1/4th. It's hardly a cosmic revelation. I would hope that most people can understand that 3/4ths is larger than 1/4th, and I would also hope that they don't consider this as a matter of opinion.
But on Chase and Madison and a whole host of others you have opined to the skies, claiming bias and what not.
In the context of a constitutional prohibition for secession, I have only spoke of Madison, and only to point out that Old Madison contradicts Young Madison.
For what it's worth, I found a similar contradiction on the topic of "Natural Born Citizen." Young Madison articulates a position that is very much contradicted by Old Madison.
The more I have learned of James Madison, the more I realized he is "flexible" depending on what most advances his interest at the time.