The Preacher Behind the Constitution #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #AMERICA250 #NATION250
The Preacher Behind the Constitution
#RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #USA250 #AMERICA250 #NATION250
The Preacher Behind the Constitution
“"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
— Jeremiah 17:9
THE STORY
James Madison arrived at the Constitutional Convention with a plan.
He had spent the winter of 1786 to 1787 reading every book he could find on the history of governments. He studied them as a diagnostician, trying to understand why human governments so reliably collapse into tyranny or anarchy.
His conclusion was thoroughly biblical: the problem is human…
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