Jonathan Turley

When people talk about the Athenian democracy, the Athenian democracy collapsed.

And the framers didn't want the Athenian democracy because they saw it as a mobocracy.

It does.

And paint came to understand that, you know, I always think I'm a big film noir buff.

And I remember there's a great line in a film noir movie where Fred Murray turns to the femme fatale and says, I love you so much.

I only wish I liked you.

And that's sort of what happens with a lot of people with pain.

He died without any friends.

He alienated everyone.

He started fights.

But the great genius of pain is pain knew what it took to win a revolution.

Madison, Madison knew what it took to create a republic.

And in many ways, those two figures shaped our destiny.

Paine understood in the end what Madison was talking about when he was sitting in Luxembourg prison waiting to be guillotined.

He understood that.

that he advocated a unilateral system, I'm sorry, a unicameral system.

He didn't like two houses.

He wanted the masses to have this enhanced voice.

He came to abandon that.

And he came to understand that you have to control democracies if they are going to flourish.