“Is it not the glory of the people of America, that,
whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other
nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom,
or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the
knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience?”—James
Madison, The Federalist Papers: No. 14 (1787)
James Madison, fourth President and the last of the Founding
Fathers, died at his home Montpelier in Virginia on this date in 1836. Time
will tell whether this year, they will exhibit, against all odds, the “good
sense” he praised.
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