“James Madison:  Constitutionalist” with Dr. Kevin Gutzman
At age 25, James Madison found himself the youngest man in the Virginia Convention that made Virginia the first colony to declare independence, wrote the first American declaration of rights, and wrote the first American constitution—the Virginia Declaration of Rights and Constitution of 1776. His effect in that assemblage was monumental, and through the rest of his long political career, he would take the lead in writing, ratifying, implementing, and laying out one of the two classic approaches to interpreting the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights as well.
About Our Speaker
Kevin R. C. Gutzman, M.P.Aff., J.D., Ph.D., is Professor of History at Western Connecticut State University and author of six books—two in American Constitutional History (including the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution) and four in the history of the early American republic, among them James Madison and the Making of America and, most recently, The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.
Hosted by: Lyceum Fellows Program
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