Step aside Elon Musk and make way for the “OG” of DOGE, James Madison.
This week in 1788, Madison’s Federalist No. 62 was published in The [New York] Independent Journal.
The essays we know collectively today as The Federalist Papers, each authored under the pseudonym Publius by Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, have stood the test of time as not only fundamental to our interpretation of the Constitution, but also to identify the evils it was designed to guard against.
Federalist No. 62 was directed at a defense of the proposed Senate composition, election process, and term length.
Madison explained that the features of the Senate would guard against too voluminous and too frequently changing laws. While discussing the utility of six-year terms as a way to incentivize legislators to have a long, reflective view, Madison explained the extended…
