text:  As I mentioned earlier, Madison didn't like the Senate setup where the states were actually in the Senate. He didn't want the states to have a key role because they thought the states were a problem, which they were at the time of the Articles of Confederation. They were violating rights. There was no property rights. They were raising taxes willy-nilly. He didn't want to go there, but he realized he had to go there. And so the concept of federalism is essentially invented on the fly, right?