Problem
1. The Framers of the Constitution believed that government should ultimately be based on the sovereign will of the people. But they also believed that a republic, not a democracy, was the best way of governing according to the peoples' wishes. What is the difference between them?
2. Why did the framers not trust democracy?
3. What were the particular problems that they believed had plagued many democracies?
4. Why in Federalist #49 did James Madison argue that passion and politics were not a good mix?