We need to go back to the history and law books, lads. (Don’t need Q for this part) This from the Heritage Foundation. In the aftermath of the American Revolution, Madison originally wrote about the need for a site where lawmakers from throughout the Republic could assemble, free of so-called insults to the "public authority.”
In June 1783, several hundred unpaid and angry Continental soldiers had marched on Philadelphia, menacing Congress in Independence Hall itself. Pennsylvania refused to intercede, Congress was forced to adjourn after two days, fleeing to New Jersey. Anti-Federalists presciently feared a “sink of corruption and a potential nursery for tyrants.”
We need to go back to the history and law books, lads. (Don’t need Q for this part)
This from the Heritage Foundation.
In the aftermath of the American Revolution, Madison originally wrote about the need for a site where lawmakers from throughout the Republican could assemble, free of so-called insults to the "public authority.”
In June 1783, several hundred unpaid and angry Continental soldiers had marched on Philadelphia, menacing Congress in Independence Hall itself.
Pennsylvania refused to intercede, Congress was forced to adjourn after two days, fleeing to New Jersey.
Anti-Federalists presciently feared a “sink of corruption and a potential nursery for tyrants.”