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To: gman992
Luther Martin

I jest, in part, because I haven't read Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet, but here's something from the dustjacket:

The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us--if he is known at all--as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who exasperated James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation of the Constitution in Philadelphia that summer of 1787. Martin is still something of a fitfully charming reprobate, but he is also a prophetic voice, warning his heedless contemporaries and his amnesiac posterity that the Constitution, whatever its devisers' intentions, would come to be used as a blueprint for centralized government and a militaristic foreign policy.

27 posted on 07/03/2011 4:56:19 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

The source forgot to mention that he could see the future.


82 posted on 07/03/2011 7:37:07 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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