![]() ![]() But when it fell to them to sell the sausage, they assumed, no doubt correctly, that they had to come up with all sorts of high-minded reasons why every link was lip-smackingly good. ![]() ![]() They thought it was absurd and offensive that flyspecks like Rhode Island and Delaware should have equal weight in the upper house with colossi like Virginia and Pennsylvania. They’re newspaper op-ed pieces, written in haste to sell a particular set of compromises, some of which their authors had adamantly opposed and accepted only with the greatest reluctance.įor example, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton both hated the so-called equality of the states in the Senate. The Federalist Papers-so often quoted to rationalize governmental stasis and congressional gridlock-are almost always treated as secular scripture. ![]()
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