Huck writes as if Madison forced our Constitution on an unwilling country.
The fact is he was one of 55 delegates, three of whom were sitting governors, many had Revolutionary War experience and nearly all had held state political offices. Several were sitting members of the Confederate Congress.
To think Madison pushed them around is laughable.
Incorrect as usual. Madison used the great political skill for which he was known, and successfully shepharded his government-expanding project through to ratification. The state conventions ratified it, and deserve the consequences.
He was, by all accounts, a brilliant politician, even if he was a failure as president, and even though his Federalist Papers are laughably wrong on almost every count.