{"id":1800,"date":"2024-09-12T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2024-09-12T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:49:04","slug":"comtemplating-the-constitution-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/comtemplating-the-constitution-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Comtemplating the Constitution- Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contemplating the Constitution \u2013 Part III <\/strong><\/h2>\n

James B. Rose<\/a>\u00a0and Barbara Rose<\/a>, American Christian History Institute<\/a><\/h4>\n

\u00a0\"Rose,<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 JAMES MADISON<\/strong><\/h3>\n

FATHER OF THE CONSTITUTION and <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

BILL OF RIGHTS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Madison began his education home schooled by his Grandmother and later tutored by a minister.\u00a0 As a youth, he educated himself from the family library.\u00a0\u00a0 He learned to reason from Scripture and was influenced by Dr. John Witherspoon and John Locke.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Historian Garry Wills wrote:\u00a0 \u201cAs a framer and defender of the Constitution he had no peer…. The finest part of Madison’s performance as President was his concern for the preserving of the Constitution…. No man could do everything for the country\u00a0\u2013 not even Washington.\u00a0 Madison did more than most, and did some things better than any. That was quite enough. (Garry Wills, James Madison<\/em>. Times Books, 2002, p.164)<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOne scholar has written of Madison as the Founding Father \u2018whose chief interest in life was to prove that Americans had been chosen by Providence for an experiment to test man\u2019s capacity for self government.\u2019\u201d <\/strong>(Swanson,\u00a0 p. 84)<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Madison joined <\/strong>Alexander Hamilton<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>John Jay<\/strong><\/a> to write the Federalist Papers. <\/strong>James Madison authored 29 of the 85 Papers.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\"Constitution<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Federalist Paper, No. 39<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cThe first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican. It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government<\/strong>.\u00a0 If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible. (Madison)<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Federalist Paper # 10:<\/strong> Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of <\/strong>turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.\u00a0 <\/strong>(Madison)<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWhat we know today about the (Constitutional) Convention we owe largely to (Madison\u2019s) daily record of all that transpired.\u00a0 Day after day for the entire 99 days, this man who was always in frail health never missed attendance.\u00a0 He said later that the ordeal almost killed him, but, nevertheless, he was sustained in his Herculean task\u201d\u00a0 \u201cHis object was to preserve the history of a Constitution on which would be staked the happiness of a people great even in its infancy, and possibly the cause of liberty throughout the world.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\n
\u00a0<\/span>(Swanson, Mary Elaine,\u00a0 The Education of James Madison A Model for Today<\/strong>, Montgomery, Alabama: The Hoffman Education Center for the Family, 1992, p. 191)<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>(Aside, in the Providence of God, Jim Rose was born on Constitution Day.\u00a0 He knew that Jim would spend 40 years teaching America\u2019s Christian History and Government)<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\"ACHI<\/a>Originally published in Eagle\u2019s Aerie, <\/em>American Christian History Institute, September 2007. Used by Permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contemplating the Constitution \u2013 Part III James B. Rose\u00a0and Barbara Rose, American Christian History Institute \u00a0 \u00a0 JAMES MADISON FATHER OF THE CONSTITUTION and BILL OF RIGHTS \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Madison began his education home schooled by his Grandmother and later tutored by a minister.\u00a0 As a youth, he educated himself from the family library.\u00a0\u00a0 He learned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,104],"tags":[10,17,36,13,22,21,23,16,9,26,18,30],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-christian-history","category-blog","tag-americas-providential-history","tag-american-republic","tag-americans-christian-history","tag-choosing-representatives","tag-government","tag-history","tag-liberty","tag-pilgrim-institute","tag-principle-approach","tag-providential-history","tag-republican-form-of-government","tag-restoring-americas-biblical-foundations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}