James Madison actually said...

"As it is essential to liberty that the government, in general, should have a common interest with the people, so it is particularly essential that the House should have an immediate dependence on and ..."

"We must distinguish between the deliberative functions of the house and the ministerial functions of the executive powers."

"The House of Representatives is elected immediately by the great body of the people."

"A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who me..."