> what are you going to do, throw Congress in jail? My understanding is at the time it was written, it was expected that a government would be balanced by the

> what are you going to do, throw Congress in jail? My understanding is at the time it was written, it was expected that a government would be balanced by the potential military might of an armed rebellion should the government act so against the interests of the populace as to inspire that response (after all, starved and freezing American rebels had just beaten one of the mightiest empires in history, so they had set historical precedent). I don't think the founders foresaw a future in which the government's military might so far surpassed the public's as to make such a rebellion unthinkable.