![]() A diligent member of the Continental Congress, he, along with Alexander Hamilton, proposed a states’ revenue to pay the new country’s debts and promoted Jefferson as peace negotiator in Paris. Constitution, including the important early tenet for religious liberty. ![]() Working with Jefferson in fashioning the Virginia constitution, Madison was drafting the blueprint that would become the U.S. While he never studied the law or pursued the military, mostly due to his ill health, which was perceived then as epilepsy, Madison was a doer, translating his passionate defense of the Baptists’ right to worship in Virginia into activism in the patriotic cause of the Virginia Convention. ![]() A Founding Father gets a respectful reappraisal.Īuthor and former second lady Cheney ( We the People: The Story of Our Constitution, 2008, etc.) puts another feather in her patriotic hat with this life of James Madison (1751-1836), fourth president, forger of the Constitution and friend of Thomas Jefferson. ![]()
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