...to the danger of "disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions Notwithstanding the success which has attended the...established forms of government and which does so much honor to the virtue and intelligence of the people of America, it must be confessed that the experiments...

...institution of the state constitutions, and applying their example to the Federal Constitution, Madison says: Notwithstanding the success which has attended the...established forms of government and which does so much honor to the virtue and intelligence of the people of America, it must be confessed that the experiments...

...Madison's insight that "the danger of disturbing the public tranquility by interesting too strongly the public passions is a still more serious objection...frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decisions of the whole society," is one that is shared by elites today. Taking added precaution, presidents...

...solemnity and seriousness of the process would be trivialized." Madison in The Federalist also was "against a frequent reference of constitutional questions, to the decision of the whole society," yet even the Constitution's friends did not object to a convention in and of itself. They were instead...

...(footnote 3, p. 94). 335 The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection...constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society. JAMES MADISON, The Federalist, ed. Benjamin F. Wright, no. 49, p. 349 (1961). 336 Our chief danger...

...danger of "disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions. . . . Notwithstanding the success which has attended the...established forms of government and which does so much honor to the virtue and intelligence of the people of America, it must be confessed that the experiments...

...revision [would] engender pernicious factions that might not otherwise come into existence." Similarly, "a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society" would awaken "the passions most unfriendly to order and concord."81 If the ground rules were placed...

...States, 1903), 15:41-42. It is this argument that Madison attempts to refute in Federalist 49, arguing, "Notwithstanding the success which has attended the revisions of our established forms of government ... it must be confessed that the experiments are of too ticklish a nature to be unnecessarily multiplied"...

...community on its side. The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions is a still more serious objection...established forms of government and which does so much honor to the virtue and intelligence of the people of America, it must be confessed that the experiments...

...the whole society. . . . The danger of disturhing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection...attended the revisions of our established forms of goverament, it must be confessed that the experiments are of too ticklish a nature to be unnecessarily...