The second method will be exemplified in the federal republic of the United States. Whilst all authority in it will be derived from, and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority.
—James Madison
Also Madison.
Shocker there what “tyranny of the majority” actually meant.
Yeah, it makes much more sense when taken in the context of them all being wealthy landowners, many of whom owned slaves
We really are living up to what the founding fathers wanted whodathunkit