[lbo-talk] Re: Let Us Be Glad It Is Hard to Amend the Constitution

[Michael Hoover]

>>> dhenwood at panix.com 05/20/06 1:03 PM >>>
Madison & Co.
their idea of "idiot passions" included any "wicked" attempt by the
masses to expropriate the rich. The classic passage from Federalist 10 
<http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/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
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while madison refers to *passions" a number of times in #10, he doesn't
refer to them as *idiot* ones...madison's best known use of 
word is in #62 where he refers to *impulse of sudden and violent
passions*, he is writing about the necessity of a *dispassionate* upper
legislative house that will check the rabble in the lower house...

madison, who initially supported a one house assembly based on
population, claims in #62 that an upper house check on the lower house
is the most important check in the constitution...   mh

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