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Ronald Reagan is no constitutional scholar. But he is a creation of the conservatism of the 1950s, which was founded on a new constitutional argument: that liberalism had gone beyond written authority, and the courts had allowed it. Reagan read a lot from The Federalist in those years and developed a special fondness for many of the Constitution's tenets. Speechwriter Tony Dolan once remarked to the President that federalism "promotes" creativity in a society. "No," Reagan cautioned him, "federalism permits creativity...
...called Constitutional Convention adjourned four days later, after the networks announced that they were scrapping live coverage in exchange for ten-minute nightly summaries of the proceedings at 11:30. Madison's diaries, renamed Federalist Follies, topped the best-seller list...
Anyone who doubts that the Constitution is a living thing that changes and evolves should think about the difference between the document then and now. As framed 200 years ago, the Constitution was virtually paranoid on the subject of democracy. James Madison wrote in The Federalist about his view of democracy and direct government. If every Athenian citizen had been a Socrates, he thought, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. The founders began, "We the People." And yet "the People" had very little to do with writing the thing. The framers, working behind closed doors and shut...
...economic and spiritual recovery from the Great Depression was almost complete. The American outcry for individual liberty was not, however, derived from the shared jubilation at the country's rebirth, but rather from voices of dissent which maintained that Roosevelt's new America stood in direct contrast to the Federalist fathers' notion of individualism...
...victors in the Federalist-Anti-Federalist dispute, he said, were not conservatives, but rather came to the decision that the risk of granting too much power to the central authority was worth the accomplishment of creating a new state that could stand by itself as a coordinated whole...