They drafted the Constitution to steer clear of these types of thuggery, which they associated with "the menace of civil problem and the early assumption of energy by a dictator."178 James Madison hence labored "to prevent the destiny of these ‘ancient and modern-day confederacies,’ which he thought had succumbed to rule by demagogues and mobs."179 The Federalist Papers, also, strongly Stanford Law School (Jan. 7, 2021) Keith E.