"Lastly, it would facilitate and foster the baneful practice of secessions; a practice which has shown itself even in States where a majority only is required; a practice subversive of all the principles of order and regular government; a practice which leads more directly to public convulsions, and the ruin of popular governments, than any other which has yet been displayed among us."
--From Federalist 58
Walt
There was a recent thread, I forget if DiLorenzo was involved with it, that identified Madison as an evil monarchist. What does that make John Adams??? A fascist?