The thing that endears Madison most to me is his
Federalist #46 in which he gloats about the private
ownership of firearms by Americans.
Happy Birthday Jim!
His greatest contribution in the drafting of the Constitution was his devotion to republicanism, going back to that remarkable history of all the republics that the world had ever known at that time that he authored in that extra year under Witherspoon at Princeton. Witherspoon’s great interest as a Christian scholar was the Hebrew Republic and he passed on that interest to his students, of whom, including Madison, there were some 37 or so in the constitutional convention.