op- ponents of the Constitution and resolutely fought off the draft's defenders (including Madison)."
It is true, Wills acknowledges, that Madison put rotation in his first draft of the Constitu- tion-but only as part of his initial effort to cut state legislatures completely out of the federal election system. Madison had been frustrated in the Continental Congress by the way in which the state legislatures tied the hands of the delegates they sent. His Virginia Plan pro- posed that the people...