Thomas Sheridan

"I shall be like that tree," he once said.

"I shall die at the top." He became increasingly quarrelsome, and longstanding friendships like that with Thomas Sheridan ended without sufficient cause.

And years later, W.B. Yeats poetically translated his tombstone as, "Swift has sailed into his rest, Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast.

Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty." And there's lots of information online about Jonathan Swift, his eccentric life and his body of works.

But Madison wasn't talking about emotion here in Federalist 46.

At the time of the founding, a very common dictionary definition of the word repugnant, here from Thomas Sheridan's Complete Dictionary of the English Language in 1789, it means disobedient, reluctant, contrary, and opposite.

So when you plug that translation, that definition back into James Madison's blueprint in Federalist 46, the message is clear.

If you want to beat the federal government, you have to disobey them and you have to refuse to help them.

And it's adjacent to a splendid Romandoric style archway constructed by the great Bath architect, John Wood the Elder.

Now, in 1770, Thomas Sheridan, that is Richard's father, a former actor and elocutionist, arrived in Bath, and accompanying him was his 18-year-old son, Richard.

And they settled into the now lost Kingsmeath Street.

which actually was bombed during World War II, the Bath Blitz, 1942.