首先，革命一代的成就是一家集体企业，由于人格和意识形态的多样性而成功。他们的相互作用和并置产生了平衡和平衡的动态形式，不是因为它们中的任何一个是完美或无误的，而是因为它们的相互缺陷和谬误，以及他们的怪异性和过度差异，而是以很大的方式互相检查。
(First, the achievement of the revolutionary generation was a collective enterprise that succeeded because of the diversity of personalities and ideologies present in the mix. Their interactions and juxtapositions generated a dynamic form of balance and equilibrium, not because any of them was perfect or infallible, but because their mutual imperfections and fallibilities, as well as their eccentricities and excesses, checked each other in much the way that Madison in Federalist 10 claimed that multiple factions would do in a large republic.)