LOL, it was only written by the guy who wrote the phrase, don't you think he would have known what he meant it to say?
Sheesh!
Huck, thanks for posting the revelant part of Federalist #41.
No problemo. I would love to see the point debated by competent adversaries. I should say I don't have a dog in this fight, i.e., I don't know for certain what I think the correct answer is. I am slightly biased towards Madison, because I admire what he did. Yet I have a good amount of skepticism about his libertarian inclinations, and his manner of flip-flopping. Take nullification. Madison was both correct and dead wrong on that subject, depending on the year. But it is a key constitutional point. We know which view prevailed. It would still interest me to see it debated here.