Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
You should ponder more Jefferson and less Madison.
Thank you for the reply
. Anyway, I do ponder jefferson also (see below on that) but Madison made some bad arguments, he lied his ass off, and the Federalists still couldn't get their proposal legally ratified.
I ponder Jefferson because he did not believe that anarchy was good for large societies, which meant he didn't care about ethics as much as dr. Paul did. The Declaration of Independence, which he authored, also contained a major flaw (i.e., it was for replacing bad govts with new govts rather than abolition of govt and replacement with nothing) and I don't like how Jefferson believed voting to be a duty for all white men. Voting should be a duty for no one and people who vote should kind of be held responsible.
All of that said... in spite of Jefferson being a little too majoritarian for my tastes (although he actually wasnt majoritarian since he didn't believe women and blacks should vote, although the point still stands), he was quite a bit more reasonable (made less dumb arguments) and ethical (favored less gov) than most of his compatriots, especially James Madison.