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Fun experiment to run: go through the Federalist Papers and find places where they make psychological observations/predictions about how people in government/politics do, should, or will act. Note that these observations/predictions typically underlie, or provide justification for the structure of the Constitution they are advocating for. Also note that these observations/predictions are completely wrong in the modern world.

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Are they? Based on my observations of the modern world they seem to have been remakably accurate actually. Scarily accurate in fact. What observations/predictions did you note that are completely wrong?

Try looking at what they say about how the Senate will work. Or about how a president would respond to impeachment, and how impeachment would work as a check.

Weren't they describing a Senate that was appointed by state legislators? They weren't describing what a government with Direct Election of Senators would look like.

Or, if that's not what you're talking about, why not just quote a relevant portion of the FP instead of being so deliberately cryptic?

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