What's urs? I haven't been proved otherwise, never I read a more intriguing, interesting, free and rich debate over the heart of democracy, what it is about, how it works and what will be the forces at work in the system than the debate around the Bill of Rights itself and should it be included or not in the Constitution. Endless stuff to learn. Read it a hundred times and 101 u think of something u didn't see before. Among the most intriguing, I most like to find out is why and what lead James Madison to reach the conclusion that "....Wherever the real power in a Governmant lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is cheifly to be apprehended, not from acts of government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents..... ..... Wherever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done, and not less readily by a powerful & interested party than a powerful and interested prince......"

Of course there is experience but later he says, ...."....in the security in the former agst. oppression of more than the smaller part of society, whereas in the former it may be extended in a manner to the whole........ Where the power, as with us, is in the many not in the few, the danger can not be very great that the few will be thus favored. It is much more to be dreaded that the few will be unnecessarily sacrificed to the many......"

And I reach the conclusion that these very same arguments would definitly apply strongly in favor of an unlimited support to a french ratification of the European Charter for Regional and Minorities languages but it doesn't tell me why and how his vision was so balanced.