Can you guess who I have been reading? Remember, I do not post my own thought, but that of the authorities. I believe that Madison, Jay, and Hamilton would be trying to make sense of the modern State as it is evolving so rapidly under constitutional aegis and they would be in substantial agreement. Montesquieu would be disappointed to also have to agree.
RightWhale, I imagine the gentlemen you name are spinning in their very graves, mourning the death of the living principles that they had strived so hard to preserve "to ourselves, and our posterity" in constitutional form....
But you didn't answer my main question: Have you turned into a "Euro-weenie?"