Very funny to me that part of the origin of the Bill of Rights is James Madison needing very desperately to win an election. From Tim Shenk’s “Realigners.”
“yeah yeah bill of rights, i’ll do anything to get you hogs to vote for me”
@jbouie And then he wrote letters back and forth to himself. He would have been a blast with Twitter.
@andrew like many of our greatest americans, james madison was a brain-poisoned poster

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@ MamesJadison: James Madison, you don't love freedom enough.

@ JamesMadison: You are wrong sir and I shall prove it.

@ MamesJadison: You have bested me and made an ally of an opponent. You are also very tall.

@jbouie No parchment barriers, how quaint.
@jbouie According to what I've read, Madison really had to force himself to write the thing, but once he was done he stepped back and looked at it and was like "Actually this is some good shit"
@jbouie I think all of us writers have been there