[capitan_refugio]

"The Amendments of the Bill of Rights substantively altered both the content and the nature of the Constitution itself in ways demanded by the American people before they would ratify it, and the Federalists acceded in order to get the document agreed to."

A failed thesis if there ever was one. Madison was the primary author and shepherd of the proposed amendments in the 1st Congress. He let nothing in that "substantively altered both the content and the nature of the Constitution." The Federalists were in firm control of the 1st Congress and they were not about to undo their recent successes.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Madison merely made the best of the understanding reached that amendments be added and prevented any damage.