Interesting, I didn't know that. I looked it up, and I really liked this Madison quote:
> In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
Interesting, I didn't know that. I looked it up, and I really liked this Madison quote:
> In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
(from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._55)