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To: Reily
The Founders warned us!

Which? If you read the account of the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Henry's warning was met with Hamilton's bombastic smoke screen, Madison's stammering, and Randolph's incredulity. How much of that was for rhetorical purposes we'll never know.

Madison's reaction was particularly disturbing to me because of his genius, but he was young enough he might have been prone to unwarranted idealism. Hamilton clearly knew what he was doing but we'll never know the degree of his intrigues were justified by his belief in the need for the country to raise money for a navy. Don't know enough about Randolph to come to any conclusions.

80 posted on 07/20/2025 1:00:56 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Carry_Okie

From the text in Constitution it was not to give us a government that was to be a Wilsonian or even a Jeffersonian direct democracy.

Example: The 17th Amendment


81 posted on 07/20/2025 1:06:17 PM PDT by Reily
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