Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 23:49:07 -0500
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: the state


At 11:24 PM 9/11/96, Justin Schwartz wrote:

>As Madison pointed out, you can eliminate factionalism by
>eliminating its causes if you like. That means the end of pluralism,
>creating the conditions where everyone thinks the same thing.

Yeah, but didn't Madison have a heavy hand in designing a constitutional
system that had the frustration of popular will at its core, to assure the
happy sleep of the propertied?

Doug

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