Not to prolong this thread, but... Doug wrote: > There may be a parallel, however tenuous, in the Federalist Papers, a > series of articles that led to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution.
Sorry, factual error. Those papers did not *lead* to the drafting of the Constitution, they were a set of letters written to explain the new constitution, which was then in the process of being ratified by the various states, to the people of New York. Rick