Was James Madison A Prophet?

I am totally stunned by the wisdom and foresight of James Madison. Listen to this: "I will add as a fifth circumstance in the situation of the House of Representatives, restraining them from oppressive measures, that they can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together...without which every government degenerates into tyranny...what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of society? I answer...above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom and in return is nourished by it.  If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the Legislature as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty." (The Federalist Papers; Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay; Bantam Dell, 2003; p 349, 350)

No wonder there is such a chasm between the "ruling class" inside the beltway and the "country class", the rest of us. Congress passes a law and the law exempts the Congress and government employees from the law. Talk about creating two classes, the ruling class and in the eyes of the ruling class, the hicks, the country class. The representatives and senators and their staffs and the bureaucrats are exempt from the law and the rest of us are subject to the law and also pay for the law. So the members of the ruling class sit on  their high and mighty thrones inside the beltway and the rest of us kiss their feet and thank them for passing such intelligent laws. This is one impetus that has been leading us towards tyranny. Without the bond of living under the same laws, we will degenerate into a tyranny.

The fact that we have allowed this to happen is really sad. We need to demand that all exemptions for employees of the government, elected and appointed, be repealed retroactive. Maybe we need to consider an amendment to the Constitution that states that no law shall exempt government employees from its obligations. It is a shame that we would even have to consider such an amendment. Certainly the employees of government are moral enough to consider such an exemption an outrage. It also is a shame that the lawmakers don't consider their laws to be worth living under. If we continue to allow this we will tolerate anything "except liberty." What a sad state of affairs we have allowed to government to come to! We have been running toward tyranny, but thanks to BO we have come awake.

Thank you, James Madison, for being so clear minded.