Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

James Madison, who was small in stature and suffered from ailments all his life, was large in intellect and devoted to creating a healthy government for the newly united states. His future wife, called him the “Great Little Madison” as she swooned over their first meeting. Madison was a scholar of constitutions and organized the framework for the one presented to begin the Constitutional Convention. He was a master legislature and worked as the whip to pass Washington’s agenda during his first term. He authored many of the essays appearing in that peerless political work, The Federalist. Yet he took up the causes of nullification, removing slaves to Africa, and the embargo. Learn why we owe this complex man a debt of gratitude at the same time we see his human flaws.