[TheRealThing]

⬆⬆ You are correct; it was John Adams. However, the Greeks had a term "ochlocracy" or "mob rule" and that did concern Jefferson and other Framers. There is more to right and wrong and justice than a poll or a showing of hands. The Bill of Rights addresses some of these concerns. I believe it is Federalist 51 that discusses tyranny of the majority in the last portion. We have a system of checks and balances, and "mob rule" is to be held in check as well where the mob seeks to deny or circumvent justice.

Mob rule was something one could only see in the movies before B-Rock-Head ascended. Rioters would have found themselves prosecuted for burning a town to the ground under any other President in history. Had Eric Holder come out and clearly stated that such insurrection would be dealt with by the full force of US law, it would not have happened. And if Trump gets elected I would expect him to deal with the forces of anarchy in an appropriate fashion.

But this is all a smoke screen. You initially said that the framers had and wrote about the concept of keeping the power of he people in check, and that that concept was set forth by Madison in F#10, or did I miss something? Your premise was a conflation of two separate issues. The federal government's responsibility to provide an orderly society in preventing mob like outbreaks of violence and destruction such as Ferguson, MO., against the power of the people, which was a clear reference to the power of their votes. Hence, Madison's reference to vesting the power of governance and the administrations of that power by our elected delegates in F#10.

There is but one thing outside of this nation's fear of God Himself, which separates us from the voluntary forfeiture of the precious freedoms our forefathers sacrificed so much to attain and for which so many have paid the ultimate price in order to defend, our right to vote. In other words, that unspeakable gift the founders handed down to us, now seems likely be to handed right back into the hands of tyranny by mushrooms who have lost appropriate gratitude and understanding of what they have. Make America Great Again.