How to Do Politics

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally posted by sammyg2
It's TOE the line.
If you really want to understand how our political system is supposed to work, ask the man who designed it. James Madison.
He explains it all in the Federalist Papers.
He's the father of the consitution, he's the father of the bill of rights, he was the leader in the first congresses and wrote most of the early laws and the first 10 amendments to the consitution. No single man had more to do with designing the United states of America than James Madison. He did a lot more for this country than George Washington and Abraham Lincoln combined but doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
BTW, He and Thomas Jefferson also started the republican party.

The Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison as the Republican party (not related to the present-day Republican Party) in 1792, was the dominant political party in the United States from 1800 until the 1820s when it split into competing factions, one of which became the modern-day Democratic Party. Its members identified the party as the Republicans, Jeffersonians, Democrats (less frequently),[1] or combinations of these (such as Jeffersonian republicans).[2] Historians later chose the term "Democratic Republican Party".