Yes. I debated putting up 69 or 70 but felt too many people would take a line out of context as justification. Madison doesn’t pussyfoot around as much as Hamilton in my opinion.
Including my favorite passage: "But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
Cont'd: "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
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