Ebola, the IRA and your rights
In the years following the adoption of the Constitution, before he was Secretary of State under President Thomas Jefferson and then president…
In the years following the adoption of the Constitution, before he was Secretary of State under President Thomas Jefferson and then president himself, James Madison, who wrote the Constitution, was a member of the House of Representatives. During that period of his life, he gave illuminating speeches and wrote elegant essays and letters about human freedom.
In one of his essays, Madison noted that freedom came about in Europe when the people rose up and cast off or intimidated tyrants, who reluctantly granted the people the freedoms they sought. That was, in Madison's words, "power granting liberty. . .
In the years following the adoption of the Constitution, before he was Secretary of State under President Thomas Jefferson and then president…
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