Thank you for this. This will be my next ‘assignment’ after I finish reading the Federalist Papers. According to the late Antonin Scalia, the Federalist Papers are not well known, but are just as important as our other founding documents, and are meant to compliment them.
Does Adams say how the people should go about getting power back from the establishment? Because that is the issue today.
The constitution is no longer any help, since it is interpreted and enforced by the oligarchs, so it has become whatever suits their needs.
Electing the “right people” has proven to be a failure too, as shown by the situation today. Even well intentioned individuals sooner or later get coopted and corrupted by the system.
So is manning the pitchforks the only remaining answer?
The use ( or misuse) of power influence money money money propaganda ( fake news) and religion to control the masses and keep control - goes way back. At least to the Flavian etc in the Roman Empire. (We still have their vestiges today)