Rousseau’s wish to free the current majority from all restrictions, to dissolve the people into a homogeneous mass, abolish decentralization, and remove representative institutions could not be in sharper contrast to American traditions of constitutionalism, federalism, localism, and representation. ~ Claes G. Ryn, America the Virtuous, p. 73 In his important book, America the Virtuous, Professor …Rousseau’s wish to free the current majority from all restrictions, to dissolve the people into a homogeneous mass, abolish decentralization, and remove representative institutions could not be in sharper contrast to American traditions of constitutionalism, federalism, localism, and representation. ~ Claes G. Ryn, America the Virtuous, p. 73 In his important book, America the Virtuous, Professor …