This book follows the life of James Madison, our 4th president, who
at the tender age of twenty-five was thrust into significant
politics as an elected member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Even in his first venture into statesmanship. Madison took notes on
constitutional deliberations, a practice that he would continue in
the Federal Convention that proposed the United States Constitution
and throughout much of his legislative career whether in
Philadelphia, New York City, or Williamsburg, Virginia. Just as
most of our knowledge of the framing of the U.S. Constitution is
provided by Madison's painstaking notes of the Constitutional
Convention of 1787, much of our knowledge of George Mason's many
contributions to the Virginia Constitution of 1776 are also known
through Madison's efforts. His major personal contribution to that
seminal state constitution is a brief but key phrase in the
Virginia Declaration of Rights that would in many respects become a
pattern for the Bill of Rights that Madison was later largely
responsible for addition to the United States Constitution. His
addition of a simple clause converted Mason's proposed language
from religious toleration, where an official church would permit
citizens to attend other churches, to religious freedom with its
clear implication that it was one of the Rights of Man that were so
important to that revolutionary generation. Throughout his career
he remained committed to religious freedom and he is still
considered one of its greatest contributors. During the brief time
between his terms in Congress he would prevail in battles against
the re-establishment of the Episcopal Church in Virginia and would
win legislative approval for the Statute for Religious Freedom that
Jefferson wrote and in which he took enormous pride, but which
required the legislative management of James Madison to become law.
Madison is best and justifiably known as "Father of the
Constitution" because of his heroic role in bringing together the
Federal Convention in 1787, influencing its outcomes through the
Virginia Plan, maintaining records of the debates, winning its
ratification in the largest state and influencing several other
states.
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