Read this excerpt from federalist no. 55: the number [of legislative assemblies] ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. in all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. had every athenian citizen been a socrates, every athenian assembly would still have been a mob. what does the excerpt suggest about federalists?