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34 Susan Dunn70. Madison, 1833, draft of a letter on majority governments, in TheMind of the Founder: Sources of the Political Thought of James Madison,ed. Marvin Meyers (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1981),415.71. Madison, Federalist No. 10, 58–59.72. Madison, Federalist No. 51, 337.73. Madison, Federalist No. 10, 54.74. Cecelia Kenyon, ‘‘Alexander Hamilton: Rousseau of the Right,’’Political Science Quarterly, June 1958, vol. 72. Although Hamilton believedin the ‘‘public good,’’ he felt that it would best be defined by theFederalist ruling elite and not by the people at large. Like Rousseau, Hamiltonbelieved that unity in government and society should prevail. Althoughhe allowed for differences of opinion in the legislature, ultimately all representativeswould have to agree. ‘‘When a resolution is once taken, the oppositionmust be at an end,’’ he wrote in Federalist 70, adding with a Rousseauianflourish, ‘‘that resolution is a law, and resistance to it punishable.’’75. Madison, Federalist No. 10, 56.76. Madison, Letter of 16 April 1787, in Robert A. Rutland et al., eds.,The Papers of James Madison (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia,1983), 9:384.77. Madison, Federalist No. 10, 57.78. Madison, Federalist No. 51, 339.79. Jonathan Elliot, ed., The Debates in the Several State Conventionson the Adoption of the Federalist Constitution (Philadelphia: Lippincott,1937), 5:242.80. Daniel Defoe, quoted by Lawrence Stone, ‘‘The Results of the EnglishRevolutions of the Seventeenth Century,’’ in J. G. A. Pocock, ed.,Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776 (Princeton: Princeton UniversityPress, 1980), 75.81. On English parliamentary democracy, see Susan Dunn, Sister Revolutions:French Lightning, American Light, 203ff.82. Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents[1770] in The Writings and Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke(Boston: Little Brown, Beaconsfield Edition, 1901), 1:529 and 533–34.83. On English parliamentary democracy, see Allen Potter, ‘‘Great Britain:Opposition with a Capital ‘O’,’’ in Dahl, ed., Political Oppositions inWestern Democracies, 6–8.84. Robert Alan Dahl, ‘‘The American Oppositions,’’ in Dahl, ed., PoliticalOppositions in Western Democracies, 65.