Consequential Actions Podcast
Kevin Gutzman on James Madison and the Constitution
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Kevin Gutzman on James Madison and the Constitution
At twenty-five, James Madison moved the Virginia Convention past mere toleration to "the free exercise of religion." Eleven years later, he went to Philadelphia to ask for a veto over every law of every state — and came home with a federal union instead.
Historian Kevin Gutzman calls Madison not the father of the Constitution but its unhappy…