在麦迪逊对州政府的批判性评估中，有一种可见的反民主精神源于这样一种信念，即政治受欢迎程度产生了app依和煽动性的有毒化学，以牺牲长期公共利益为代价，使人们普遍存在的兴奋和短期利益特权。
(There was in Madison's critical assessment of the state governments a discernible antidemocratic ethos rooted in the conviction that political popularity generated a toxic chemistry of appeasement and demagoguery that privileged popular whim and short-term interests at the expense of the long-term public interest.)