re: #280 Bubbaman
Please provide some valid references as this is a rather audacious perspective that runs counter to classical writings and teachings. To think that the framers were primarily concerned with the infiltration of collectivism is, a bit twisted.
I do find in the famously anti-democratic Federalist #10, that “paper money”, “an abolition of debts”, and “an equal division of property” are listed as “improper or wicked project[s]”. In particular that last one reads like a collectivist urge.