US Constitution Based On Human Nature

Introduction

In this outlook the Constitution was foisted upon the homeland as an antidote against “the ills of democracy.” The major reason supposedly was to defend vested concerns by such constrains upon the masses as tests and balances—especially judicial review—and a centered government in which only the House of Representatives was to be popularly elected. (Vile 41)

Madison proposed in The Federalist that what most moved the founders was neither monarchy neither the masses but human environment, as they appreciated it. (Louis 41) In their outlook mankind is moved less by cause than by passion, less ...