Three strikes for Madison

Three strikes for Madison Comments on the Federalist Papers: Madison asked, “How could a readiness for war in a time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?” Do Iran, North Korea or China come to mind? Impossible, of course, to stop war builld-up in any terrorist states. The importation of slaves was prohibited after 1808. Madison thought “It ought to be considered as a great point gained in favour of humanity, that a period of twenty years may terminate for ever, within these States, a traffic which has so long and so loudly upbraided the barbarism of modern policy...” Did this happen? Not until after the Civil War and even beyond. A third strike for Madison was his idea that the job of the general ( federal) government was to “establish a uniform rule of naturalisation.” This never happened either. Yes, common sense has struck out in politics.