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- Title
Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution.
- Authors
Chew, Richard S.
- Abstract
Madison may have had a more lawyerly mind, but hebelieved Jefferson's understanding of the law was as deepand as broad as anyone's. * $30.00 Jeff Broadwater begins his study of Thomas Jefferson andJames Madison by posing a tried-and-true classroomdiscussion question: was the U.S. Constitutionrevolutionary or reactionary? Jefferson was clearly the moreaccomplished legislator, but he saw in Madison the talentthat would make the younger Virginian "the first of everyassembly of which he became a member" (p. 59).
- Subjects
MADISON (Wis.); JEFFERSON, Thomas, 1743-1826; CONSTITUTIONS; CONSTITUTIONALISM; CONSTITUTIONAL conventions
- Publication
Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, 2021, Vol 129, Issue 2, p193
- ISSN
0042-6636
- Publication type
Book Review