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Coolness: CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER WRITINGS OF SIX MAJOR SHAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES:
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 119,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative, federally funded Founding Fathers Papers projects.
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One of my favorite writings by Madison, starting just beneath the 41st footnote:
http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-01-02-0549
I wonder how many social-cons have ever read that.
@steve s:
Something I stumbled across the other day about James Madison. It’s about him, Tom Jefferson, civil liberty’s, and the war of 1812. Lawfare’s contribution to a book.
It’s a remarkable tale of how these men applied their stated principles in their all-to-real world situations. Madison appears to have differed from Jefferson in one aspect, whether or not the government should merely accept the actions of mobs or actively seek to encourage one.
http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chapter-5.pdf
