Lance Banning
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The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic
Lance Banning
James Madison was the finest democratic theorist that the United States has ever produced. His was the pivotal philosophical role in framing the Constitution and establishing the principles on which a wholly new form of government was to be based. Yet this widely informed and profoundly original thinker has been considered by most scholars to be an intellectual pragmatist who reacted variably and inconsistently to the changing circumstances of the Revolution and the Confederation.
Lance Banning’s powerful and persuasive reexamination of Madison’s thought at…
