[Timber Rattler]

James Madison, who wrote the Bill of Rights, or James Wilson of Pennsylvania, the so-called "Penman of the Revolution."

I like Wilson myself: James Wilson (Founding Father)

Or any of the Anti-Federalists below, who were very prescient about how the country would turn out in the years to come:

Patrick Henry, Virginia

Samuel Adams, Massachusetts

Joshua Atherton, New Hampshire

George Mason, Virginia

Richard Henry Lee, Virginia

Robert Yates, New York

James Monroe, Virginia

Amos Singletary, Massachusetts

John Hancock, Massachusetts

Mercy Otis Warren, Massachusetts

James Warren, Massachusetts

George Clinton, New York

Melancton Smith, New York

James Winthrop, Massachusetts

Luther Martin, Maryland

Samuel Bryan, Pennsylvania

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

James Madison, who wrote the Bill of Rights

Funny thing about the Bill of Rights; we revere it and yet it was thought by the Federalists to be unnecessary and ill-advised. And with reason.

Who doesn’t love freedom of speech and freedom of the press? Anyone who has been libeled, that’s who. We love the First Amendment, but the Warren Court used it against us in its 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision. Which effectively read the law of libel out of our law. Sullivan was a unanimous decision with enthusiastic concurrences, but it depends on the claim that 1A modified libel law. It never did, was never intended to, but all of a sudden the whole of SCOTUS was declaring that it did.

[Loud Mime]

In my work with the Claremont Institute I have found many very smart people who claim that James Wilson was a genius. I learned to study his writings.