After a long battle to secure democracy in the United States, it somehow became fashionable among the Founding Fathers in the early days of the republic to exclude all "dangerous factions" from the narrow field of political players. John Madison warned in "Federalist Papers No. 10" against the prospects of "a number of citizens... who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." In other words, democratic institutions must be professionally tailored to fit the body politic in order to protect the lavish lifestyles and inordinate interests of the governing classes. The greatest fear of America's Founding Fathers was "the mob," or rather those men who might be tempted, over time, to take...
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