"And there you have it. George Mason was prescient. James Madison—tragically, it turns out—was naive."
And there you have it. As well as the lapdog reference James and his mates obviously didn't consider unpresidential pardons could be pulled off - and i mean that literally - during a period of the unpresidential president's term where there was no time left for the mismatched remedial impeachment process to take place.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”