Exactly what we've been thinking...about our coming travel through
India. That it came from the pen of Madison recalls his real-life
journey as a founding father of the United States.
Madison, one of the 3 or 4 key actors in the drafting of the US Constitution.
In 1787, at the Constitutional Convention, he kept the minutes of that long hot summer of debate. He crafted the myriad nuanced drafts on which the founders would continue the discussion (an euphemism; it was often enough an eye-gouging brawl) in search of elusive consensus. As is the custom--if not the prerogative--of the one chosen to keep the minutes, the description of what they said was shaded a bit in the direction of what Jemmy would have liked that they said.
Without compromise there would never have been a Constitution, no United States of America. So, the odious Three-fifths Compromise was agreed to. And it set us on a course through a long journey, in seasons of rancor, through a divided country, toward the bloody stages of Civil War.
Madison, one of the 3 or 4 key actors in the drafting of the US Constitution.
In 1787, at the Constitutional Convention, he kept the minutes of that long hot summer of debate. He crafted the myriad nuanced drafts on which the founders would continue the discussion (an euphemism; it was often enough an eye-gouging brawl) in search of elusive consensus. As is the custom--if not the prerogative--of the one chosen to keep the minutes, the description of what they said was shaded a bit in the direction of what Jemmy would have liked that they said.
Without compromise there would never have been a Constitution, no United States of America. So, the odious Three-fifths Compromise was agreed to. And it set us on a course through a long journey, in seasons of rancor, through a divided country, toward the bloody stages of Civil War.
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