Galileo
10-03-2013, 01:26 PM
Stop blaming James Madison for the shutdown By Valerie Strauss
James Madison, the principal author of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, is suddenly getting prime-time attention over his supposed role in the current government shutdown (even though he died 177 years ago).
For example, my colleague Dylan Mathews over at the great Wonkblog wrote that there are a number of people currently alive who could be blamed, “but the deeper answer is that it’s James Madison’s fault.” Why? Apparently because of “an underlying disease in our democracy whose origins lie in the Constitution and some supremely misguided ideas that made their way into it in 1787, and found their fullest exposition in Madison’s Federalist no. 51.”
Really?
MORE DETAILS HERE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/03/stop-blaming-james-madison-for-the-shutdown/
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James Madison, the principal author of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, is suddenly getting prime-time attention over his supposed role in the current government shutdown (even though he died 177 years ago).
For example, my colleague Dylan Mathews over at the great Wonkblog wrote that there are a number of people currently alive who could be blamed, “but the deeper answer is that it’s James Madison’s fault.” Why? Apparently because of “an underlying disease in our democracy whose origins lie in the Constitution and some supremely misguided ideas that made their way into it in 1787, and found their fullest exposition in Madison’s Federalist no. 51.”
Really?
MORE DETAILS HERE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/03/stop-blaming-james-madison-for-the-shutdown/
:nope