thing is, the guys in that very hot room(s) were pretty much all men of some accomplishment (or they wouldn't have been there) and it must have seemed like they weren't the kinds of guys who'd dispute election results, etc. they should have known it wasn't always gonna be like that.
and there's also the fact that most of what we know ab…
thing is, the guys in that very hot room(s) were pretty much all men of some accomplishment (or they wouldn't have been there) and it must have seemed like they weren't the kinds of guys who'd dispute election results, etc. they should have known it wasn't always gonna be like that.
and there's also the fact that most of what we know about the Convention came from Madison who's known to have tweaked his story a little as time passed.
and btw, I've always thought that Madison was kind of an Aspie. a genius but not someone who had much interest in mastering stuff that didn't interest him. like, say, being the life of the party, but from that point of view, he'd married well. I THINK I'm remembering this correctly.
yeah, but most of us don't have the responsibility Madison had to be as accurate as possible in an era without things like video replays. jeez, they didn't have film. in fact, they didn't have TYPEWRITERS (still my favorite piece of technology even if that feeling is honored more in the breach...but I still have four or five of them).
thing is, the guys in that very hot room(s) were pretty much all men of some accomplishment (or they wouldn't have been there) and it must have seemed like they weren't the kinds of guys who'd dispute election results, etc. they should have known it wasn't always gonna be like that.
and there's also the fact that most of what we know about the Convention came from Madison who's known to have tweaked his story a little as time passed.
and btw, I've always thought that Madison was kind of an Aspie. a genius but not someone who had much interest in mastering stuff that didn't interest him. like, say, being the life of the party, but from that point of view, he'd married well. I THINK I'm remembering this correctly.
That's an interesting analysis.
We all tweak our stories a little as time passes! It's an in-built feature of the human brain to fog memories as time passes.
yeah, but most of us don't have the responsibility Madison had to be as accurate as possible in an era without things like video replays. jeez, they didn't have film. in fact, they didn't have TYPEWRITERS (still my favorite piece of technology even if that feeling is honored more in the breach...but I still have four or five of them).