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We Should All Be Madisonians

By Filings on Thu, 04/15/21
Society & Culture
Political Philosophy
Founding Fathers
U.S. History
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“The main lesson [of Rasmussen’s new book Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders] is to not place much hope in the amount of happiness, amity, and social progress that politics alone can produce. And the great teacher of that lesson, the lone Founder who retained a great deal of optimism about the American future, is James Madison.” - The Dispatch

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