James Wilson in Podcasts
personThe 18th-century Scottish-born American lawyer and politician, influential in drafting the Constitution, advocate for popular sovereignty
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So what perspective did Wilson bring to this question of how much power a central government should have and how did he wield it in this debate and in the drafting?
And Wilson was one of those five.
But what comes out of that committee is Wilson's opening words of the Constitution.
And Wilson and a few other delegates write the first draft of the Constitution.
And perhaps the way in which Wilson brings the spirit of the Declaration of Independence most directly into the constitution
I mean this is the part of Wilson that I think is in some ways the most thrilling and the most I think useful to us today is how much he understood –
And so he really leads the charge along with James Madison and a few others for a house of representatives at least that is apportioned by population.
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