so you have this mulitplicity, mutability, which means the laws are all crazy. nobody knows what the law is. the judges are going crazy because the laws are being changed so rapidly, and then they're unjust. and what madison meant by that was they were hurting creditors. inflation, the printing of paper money. and he wants to solve this problem. but how do you do it? how do you limit a majority without doing violence to the basic principle of democracy? or republicanism, as he used it? and that is a major problem. and that, i think, is what we're facing or the people in the arab spring are facing. when you think about it, those coptic christians which were minority in egypt, benefit from the authoritarian government of mubarak. you remove that authority, and minorities are in trouble. how do you protect them? and still maintain majority rule? that is a major issue that i don't think the arabs have faced up to and we'll have to see how it plays out. but that's what madison had to deal with. and he was trying to work out what he called a republican remedy for repu