...countered this traditional wisdom. "The people of America," he argued in Federalist #14, should not allow "a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or...overrule the suggestions of their own good sense." Madison was also a strong advocate of religious freedom. Along with Jefferson, he campaigned successfully...

...watched, or too vigorously checked. To Thomas Jefferson, 25 Dec. 1797 PJM 17:63 America and the World Is it not the glory of the people of America, that...situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example...

...republic to be rejected merely because it may comprise what is new?" Hamilton asks in Federalist no. 14. "Is it not the glory of the people of America that,...overrule the suggestions of their own good sense?" Hamilton reminds his readers that the Revolutionary War was, itself, unprecedented and that had they...

...the "manly spirit" of the Founding generation, who had not, in his co-author James Madison's words, "suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom,...their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience."18 But if the Constitution 18 The Federalist, ed. Jacob E. Cooke (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan...

...opinions and arguments of others, including those of "former times and other nations," without suffering "a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or...situation, and the lessons of their own experience" (ibid., 85, my emphasis). A willingness to engage in experiments to establish the merit of ideas occurs...

...of the most influential of the framers, James Madison, who, writing in The Federalist Papers, asked: "Is it not the glory of the people of America that,...their own situation, and the lessons of their own experiences?"41 To Madison's view might be added that of John Stuart Mill, who railed against the "despotism...

...a direct and exalted reference to the Framers' (and his own) approach to the science of government: Is it not the glory of the people of America, that...for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their...

...historical experiment, and one that could be met only by a people that had, in Madison's bold language, "not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for...situation, and the lessons of their own experience"— that had already managed in the Confederation to "rear . . . the fabrics of governments which have...

...the people of America," he asked, that "they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity ... to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense,...situation, and the lessons of their own experience?" These comments, too, are often seen as challenging the neoclassical tradition, which is often said...

...more challengtng was Madison's vision as outlined two decades earlier in The Federalist in 17S7: "ls it not the glory of the people of America. that. whilst they have paid a decent regard to the optmons of Cormer times and other nations. they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity....