America is Living James Madison's Nightmare

America is living James Madison's Nightmare.
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America is living James Madison’s Nightmare
This article is part of a series that attempts to answer the question: Is democracy dying? Jeffrey Rosen asks whether mob rule is becoming a reality in the United States. The author further states that federalism is the most robust “Madisonian cooling mechanism,” but worries that “passion has gotten the better of us.” Going by the belief of Madison and Hamilton, Athenian citizens had been swayed by crude and ambitious politicians who had played on their emotions. In Madison’s view, history seemed to be repeating itself in America. Madison, the fourth president of the United States, was determined in drafting the Constitution, to avoid the fate of those, ancient and modern confederacies, which he believed had succumbed to rule by demagogues and mobs.
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