[Loud Mime]

I will disagree with your point that most folks know about the Federalist Papers. In preparing for my book I have been asking people about the Papers; many have heard of them. Yet only two in two years have known their purpose; not one has known of their history.

[zeugma]

I will disagree with your point that most folks know about theFederalist Papers. In preparing for my book I have been asking people about the Papers; many have heard of them. Yet only two in two years have known their purpose; not one has known of their history.

Good point. that's just a symptom of general ignorance you'll find anywhere in America today. Ask someone about John Locke, and you'll get blank stares, yet it is entirely arguable that without his writings on government, there would be no American Revolution.

I'd ask that you ask those few you find that know about the Federalist Papers if they're familiar with Letters from a Federal Farmer. 

People are woefully ignorant of history. We are certainly an illiterate bunch, and are apparently getting the government we deserve. Those of us who've actually learned from the past can see it coming back around to us. For most of my life I've feared my children will live in a nightmarish existance brought about by the tyranny of the majority. i used to have some hope that the day of reckoning could be avoided or turned aside, I no longer think there is any way to avoid the evil that is coming.