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July 25th, 2008
Santa Cruz, California
Received by FAB
I am here, James Madison.
I am new to your channeling, but I see you have a good working knowledge
of those momentous times. Yes, and despite what you may read, many
of us did indeed have a high way of thinking.
We were mortals, and we had to consider the material. But in addition,
we thought differently. But we were certainly not mystics. We were
very much of the earth, and yet we had a vision, which we tried
to translate in political terms. Yes, vision is the right word,
the application of a higher principle to government.
The way we saw it, we simply had to compromise over the slavery
issue. We felt there was no other way, if the thirteen colonies
would form one unified country. It is very easy to criticize with
the perspective of over two hundred years.
At any rate, our work continues in the present.
James Madison, Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836)
was an American politician and the fourth President of the United
States (1809–1817), and one of the Founding Fathers of the
United States. Madison was the last founding father to die. Considered
to be the "Father of the Constitution", he was the principal
author of the document. In 1788, he wrote over a third of the Federalist
Papers, still the most influential commentary on the Constitution.
The first President to have served in the United States Congress,
he was a leader in the first Congresses, he drafted many basic laws
and was responsible for the first ten amendments to the Constitution
(said to be based on the Virginia Declaration of Rights), and thus
is also known as the "Father of the Bill of Rights". As
a political theorist, Madison's most distinctive belief was that
the new republic needed checks and balances to limit the powers
of special interests, which Madison called factions. He believed
very strongly that the new nation should fight against aristocracy
and corruption and was deeply committed to creating mechanisms that
would ensure republicanism in the United States. (Source: Wikipedia)
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