The number of legislative assemblies) ought at most to be
kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion
and intemperance of a multitude. in all very numerous
assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion
never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.
had every athenian citizen been a socrates, every
athenian assembly would still have been a mob.3
what does the excerpt suggest about federalists?