The
> U.S. "Founding Fathers" created a system designed to limit popular
> sovereignty and insulate a propertied ruling class against the
> depredations of the mob - or, as Madison listed the dangers in
> Federalist No. 10 <http://www.mcs.net/~knautzr/fed/fed10.htm>: "a
> rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal
> division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project."
>
> Doug