There is a common rumor that the framers divided their between philosophical discussions of government and reading the classics in political discussions of government and reading the classics in political theory. ... The merits of the Montesquieu did not turn up until The Federalist; and although a perverse argument could be made that Madison's ideal was truly in the tradition of John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, the Locke whom the American rebels treated as an honorary president was a pluralistic defender of vested rights, not of parliamentary supremacy. ... Madis...

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