{"id":191454,"date":"2023-04-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=191454"},"modified":"2023-04-25T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:42:21","slug":"striking-at-the-heart-of-america-s-founding-and-freedom-the-marxist-assault-on-madison-and-his-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/striking-at-the-heart-of-america-s-founding-and-freedom-the-marxist-assault-on-madison-and-his-legacy","title":{"rendered":"Striking at the heart of America\u2019s Founding and freedom: The Marxist assault on Madison and his legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Madison and his work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo man is more responsible for the U.S. Constitution,\u201d wrote Notre Dame Professor Vincent Phillip Mu\u00f1oz, \u201cthan James Madison. Leading delegate at the Philadelphia Convention, advocate and expositor as Publius [in The Federalist Papers<\/em>], author and sponsor of the Bill of Rights, Madison rightfully earned his title \u2018Father of the Constitution.\u2019\u201d A closer look at Madison\u2019s role in the Convention was provided in a recent report<\/a> by Brenda Hafera of The Heritage Foundation<\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 36 years old, Madison was one of the youngest representatives at the Constitutional Convention, an unassuming man who was only five feet four inches tall, was often dressed in black, and had a weak voice. Yet he was an indispensable delegate, matched in argument perhaps only by Pennsylvania\u2019s James Wilson. It was Edmund Randolph who presented Madison\u2019s Virginia Plan that gave structure to the new Constitution and framed the conversation for the remainder of the Convention. In his defense of individual liberty, Madison advocated for separation of powers, checks and balances, bicameralism, and federalism. When the American people (and some of the delegates from that same Convention) clamored for a Bill of Rights, James Madison took the lead in drafting it. Of utmost importance to Madison was freedom of conscience\u2014America\u2019s \u201cfirst freedom.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Glimpses into the workings of Madison\u2019s own conscience appear in comments he made such as that to William Bradford: \u201cA watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the annals of Heaven.\u201d Or such as that made to Edmund Randolph explaining that at one period in his life, Madison undertook the study of law \u201cto provide a decent and independent subsistence\u201d and \u201cdepend as little as possible on the labor of slaves\u201d\u2014a remarkable sentiment for one born into an affluent, slave-holding family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His impeccable reputation for honor is evident in Jefferson\u2019s observation that in the entire time Madison was under the tutelage of the acclaimed Scottish divine John Witherspoon, president of Princeton (as the institution came to be called), he never knew Madison \u201cto do nor to say an improper thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Madison did<\/em> do was single-mindedly gather the wisdom that would soon prove indispensable to the establishment of America. \u201cFor the great tasks of his life, such as the Constitutional Convention,\u201d wrote historian Saul Padover, \u201cMadison prepared himself with overwhelming and sometimes health-breaking thoroughness,\u201d reading \u201cthe most important and authoritative works in the fields of politics, history, comparative institutions, jurisprudence, international law, and particularly accounts of ancient and modern confederacies. He bought as many books as opportunity permitted,\u201d and \u201cwhen Jefferson was American Minister to Paris, he served, among other things, as Madison\u2019s book buyer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo two men could have been closer,\u201d continued Padover, and \u201chistory records no comparable friendship of similar duration and depth of esteem.\u201d Of his friend Madison, Jefferson wrote in his Autobiography<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Madison… acquired a habit of self-possession which placed at ready command the rich resources of his luminous and discriminating mind, & of his extensive information, and rendered him the first of every assembly… of which he became a member. Never wandering from his subject into vain declamation, but pursuing it closely in language pure, classical, and copious, soothing always the feelings of his adversaries by civilities and softness of expression, he rose to the eminent station which he held in the great National [Constitutional] convention of 1787…. With these consummate powers were united a pure and spotless virtue which no calumny has ever attempted to sully. Of the powers and polish of his pen, and of the wisdom of his administration [as President] in the highest office of the nation, I need say nothing. They have spoken, and will forever speak for themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So it could be said also of the Constitution to which Madison contributed so profoundly. Its immeasurable benefit to America is self-evident\u2014even if others have added their own adulation. British Prime Minister William Gladstone called the document \u201cthe most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.\u201d And according to Professor Matthew Spalding, \u201cThe creation of the United States Constitution\u2026 was one of the greatest events in the history of human liberty. The result of the convention\u2019s work has been the most enduring, successful, enviable, and imitated constitution man has ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rewriting history, distorting reality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is hardly surprising, then, that the campaign to malign America\u2019s Founding and her Constitution would target its chief architect, James Madison. Referring to the \u201cSoviet-like rewriting of history\u201d to \u201cundermine Americans\u2019 love and respect for their country, their Constitution, and their civic way of life,\u201d Arizona State University Professor Colleen Sheehan points to Hafera\u2019s report  as the \u201cgo-to\u201d document that exposes the Marxist assault on \u201cvirtually every aspect of American life, including at landmark sites of our nation\u2019s history\u201d and especially at Madison\u2019s Montpelier, where \u201cwoke revisionist history reaches a new and dismally shocking level of ideological manipulation and deceitful distortion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introducing Hafera\u2019s report, Heritage<\/em> President Kevin Roberts notes that Montpelier\u2019s exhibits and tours, like those at Jefferson\u2019s Monticello, have relegated the achievements of its owner \u201cto the background\u2014at best, an indefensible oddity,\u201d as \u201chistorical interpretation has descended into a contorted narrative poisoned by the inanity of modern political correctness. The fact that these distorted views are funded by so many radically left-wing foundations and activists at least proves the point: History matters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief among those radical groups is the notorious Southern Poverty Law Center, which has also targeted the International Organization for the Family<\/em> as a hate group. According to Hafera,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Madison\u2019s legacy at Montpelier has been effectively erased, as there are no exhibits dedicated to his significant contributions. Montpelier can now be counted among the ranks of projects and actors that promote a distorted view of American history, suffused with critical race theory. There is a great deal of overlap between the curriculum developed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a political interest group that is widely regarded as extremist and that maligns reputable organizations it disagrees with as \u201chate groups,\u201d and the exhibits at Montpelier. Montpelier has solicited SPLC associates\u2019 involvement on multiple occasions, and the results are dispiriting and insidious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A video shown at the Montpelier Visitor Center, notes Hafera, portrays \u201cMadison [as] a slaveowner and the Constitution as racist, stating that it applied only to white men like himself,\u201d but fails to disclose that \u201cthe delegates at the Constitutional Convention deliberately rejected codifying the principle of property in men. While the Constitution does contain provisions that pertain to slavery, such as the Fugitive Slave Clause, that decision [to reject the principle of property in men] proved crucial as it \u2018became the constitutional basis for the politics that in time led to slavery\u2019s destruction.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the Heritage<\/em> report does not seek to minimize the moral repugnance of slavery in the Founding generation, it insists that a focus on slavery to the exclusion of everything else is to throw the baby out with the bathwater. \u201cThe problem today,\u201d Roberts insists, \u201cis that the predominant way we \u2018do history\u2019 in our classrooms, museums, and historic homes is a violation of the historian\u2019s first objective\u2014to let the evidence, not our personal biases or modern sensibilities, form the basis of our narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For while \u201cthe historical records of the enslaved… are important, good, and even rejuvenating, both for our history and for our contemporary civic life,\u201d says Roberts, yet \u201cemphasizing them… at the expense of the achievements of those very men whose ideas and actions made it possible to build, however imperfectly and slowly, a republic in which everyone was free, undermines not just the accuracy of our history, but also the belief in our shared principles as a pluralistic republic animated by our zealous commitment to self-governance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imperfect men, enduring truths<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an afterword to Jon Meacham\u2019s book In the Hands of the People<\/em>, African-American Harvard law Professor Annette Gordon-Reed tells of her first visit to the Jefferson Memorial where she met a Somali immigrant who turned out to be an ardent admirer of Jefferson. \u201cShe offered,\u201d says Gordon-Reed, \u201cthat Americans did not sufficiently appreciate the benefits of living in a society in which the government proclaimed no religious orthodoxy\u2014indeed one in which a respected Founder had taken a position against such an orthodoxy so clearly and steadfastly.\u201d Gordon-Reed was \u201cmore than a little taken aback.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young female African immigrant, now citizen of the United States and Thomas Jefferson enthusiast, was not at all who I expected to encounter when I decided to make my first foray to the Jefferson Memorial. Unlike many people I talk to about Jefferson, this young woman had read a good deal of what he had written. Her judgment was considered. Still, I raised the obvious and difficult questions: What about slavery? What about race? \u201cOh, I know all about that,\u201d she said with the wave of a hand. Everyone has flaws. But in this case, as far as she was concerned, the flaws did not outweigh his contributions or the importance of his more admirable ideas. I pressed a bit harder on the point. But she was unfazed. Americans, she said firmly, fixate too much on the person and not the ideas. For her, Jefferson was about the ideas, the words that voiced truths that had staying power across the ages and geography.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The incident underscores the tragedy described by Hafera: \u201cRather than being remembered for their remarkable contributions, the Founders are being discredited, their legacies distorted or erased.\u201d It is a dangerous irony that the freedom bequeathed by the Founders is being used\u2014or rather, misused\u2014to dishonor their legacy and the foundation they established to secure that very freedom. Mark Levin has written<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The counterrevolution to the American Revolution is in full force. And it can no longer be dismissed or ignored, for it is devouring our society and culture, swirling around our everyday lives, and ubiquitous in our politics, schools, media, and entertainment…. It threatens to destroy the greatest nation ever established, along with your freedom, family, and security…. The counterrevolution or movement of which I speak is Marxism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Nothing could be more anti-American and anti-Madison than Marxism, the brainchild of Karl Marx whose 1848 Communist Manifesto declared religion to be \u201cthe opiate of the masses\u201d and literally proposed doing away with the family as an archaic bourgeois institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preserving the priceless<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marxist distortion at Madison\u2019s Montpelier must be corrected, but that is just the beginning. Levin urges, \u201cWe must rise to the challenge, as did our Founding Fathers, when they confronted the most powerful force on earth, the British Empire, and defeated it.\u201d President Ronald Reagan\u2019s caveat has never been more urgent.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn\u2019t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and children\u2019s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

On August 27, 1975, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was secretly assassinated in a Marxist coup. Years earlier this esteemed leader, who President Eisenhower had once greeted at the White House as \u201ca defender of freedom and supporter of progress,\u201d left this sober warning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It is time to speak, to act, and to protect the liberty for which Madison and the other Founders, imperfect though they were, valiantly paid the price. They were \u201canimated by a sense of obligation, and of mission,\u201d wrote Henry Steele Commager, not only to their own generation but also \u201cto posterity.\u201d It is now up to us to preserve that priceless legacy for our posterity.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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