Mom: Hey Little Timmy I gotta tell ya somethin. Lil Tim: What is it Mum?
Mum: Hmm, how do I say this?
Lil Tim: Wut?
Mum: You’re ADOPTED..
Lil Tim: What!? I thought you were my real Mum!
Mum: Oh I am, the new one is on her way.

Prior to the creation of the us constitution, the general view of representative government is that it only worked in very small-scale environments- essentially a city-state or smaller. otherwise, the actual reflection of popular will declined in the representatives (ie, the difference between 1 representative per 100 citizens and 1 representative per 10,000 citizens), and generally the whole process became inefficient and self-destructive.james madison, however, was like 'no beezy'. he remarked that small republics were prone to faction and thus collapsed quickly. a large republic, he said, had so many interests and factions that none could rule, and thus they had to moderate and compromise.