It is high time that American liberals rediscovered the Founding Fathers. This suggestion may come as a surprise, because for many on the left, Madison and the other Founders are an embarrassment. Appeals to their authority are often dismissed as reactionary or inherently conservative. The republican principles of Madison and his great ally Thomas Jefferson usually receive little more than condescension or caricature — as an obsolete agrarianism at best, pro-slavery apologetics at worst.
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