The Constitution

My mind is animated by the spirit of the federalist and anti-federalist writers that I have read. One can quite clearly see the crisis, both political economic, that they were dealing with in 1787 through the urgency of their eloquence and the power of their writing and speaking. There is a passion in their pens indicative of that within their minds. We often forget that they were living in the beginning of the Romantic Era. It is not purely Enlightenment ideas that are reflected in the Constitution and the Declaration but Romantic as well. They have a sense, especially the Federalists, of the dangers and possibilities of passion in both the heart and the mind, Madison most notably.