I took a quiz (and aren't they silly!) to find out what US president would suit me--if I was into being courted by a president, that is. (Jackie Kennedy v Marilyn Monroe, Hillary Clinton v Monica Lewinski--there's courted, and then there's "courted, right?)So which one did I end up with? James Madison!
James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836), an American politician and fourth President of the United States of America (1809–1817), was one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States.
More than anyone he designed the new Constitution of 1787, and is known as the "Father of the Constitution". In 1788, he wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers, still the most influential commentary on the Constitution. As a leader in the first Congresses he drafted many basic laws and was responsible for the first ten amendments to the Constitution, and thus he 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 (especially of British origin), and was deeply committed to creating mechanisms that would make Republicanism in the United States work in practice.
And he was married to one of the foremost feminists of Colonial America: Dolley Todd Madison!
Hah! Take that, Jackie, Marilyn, Hillary and Monica!
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That was kinda fun. I got Abe "the Babe" Lincoln. [grin]
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