Madison rejected Democracy. He was a Federalist
https://www.founderoftheday.com/founder-of-the-day/federalist-51
Those are s not fs everybody used Johnson's1755 dictionary of the English Language and Dr Johnson was a conservative's conservative philosopher.
And Madison was deeply conservative and Jefferson was as liberal as it got short of Paine and Franklin. Jefferson was an evolutionary botanist (plant breeder) and a Deist.