What is that supposed to mean?
What Madison wanted was an oligarchy composed of wealthy landowners that ciould prevent anyone else from actually getting any real power.
Absolute piffle.
Was Madison's dream crushed when Andrew Jackson was elected?
You should read this....
The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer.The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability
So , because the power of the people is bound to increase , the wealthy ought to have reserved one sixth part of the governments power?
This is written by an engineer of our checks and balances, he didn't want a class war , and this was his idea for making a class war unneeded.
This should be compared with the French Revolution , where the leaders thought a class war a good idea, this paragraph just tells me that Madison had those European stooges pegged precisely.
