https://twitter.com/radiofreetom/status/1116949468530782208 I posted the link to my book for a reason, Tom. The book is about this exact topic. To address it adequately required a book-length treatment not a Tweet or even a blog post. I should think a scholar who respects expertise would reserve judgment until reading it.

But, for now, here’s James Madison: “Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an interest opposed to the rights of the third? Will the latter be secure?...

“The prudence of every man would shun the danger. The rules & forms of justice suppose & guard against it. Will two thousand in a like situation be less likely to encroach on the rights of one thousand?” Sound familiar?