[Arm_Bears]

That something as extensive as The Federalist Papers was required to sell the idea of the Constitution should have been a tip-off of future trouble.

[BroJoeK]

Arm_Bears: "That something as extensive as The Federalist Papers was required to sell the idea of the Constitution should have been a tip-off of future trouble."

The Federalist Papers set standards of highly educated, erudite thinking underlying the short & simple words of the Constitution.
Properly understood, the Federalist Papers should bind & limit progressive-liberal Democrats in their never-ending quest for total Big Government power.