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FIRST LINE: {Philadelphia, May 5, 1787} He hurried along Market Street, his high-crowned hat offering scant protection against the rain.

“Extend the sphere,” Madison would soon explain, “and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it les probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.”