[OneWingedShark]

No one who has read the Federalist Papers can remotely claim that the government created by the constituion allows such.

And yet, I doubt anyone reading the anti-federalist papers would be much surprised... they correctly identified many of the problems, not of the Constitution per se but of the [corrupt] people using such a Constitution.

[zeugma]

And yet, I doubt anyone reading the anti-federalist papers would be much surprised... they correctly identified many of the problems, not of the Constitution per se but of the [corrupt] people using such a Constitution.

Indeed. I used to wonder why the Letters From A Federal Farmer never got the distribution and discussion that the Federalist Papers do. It's been a long time since I wondered about that.