Jesse Wegman
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281 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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He leaves town in the middle of the night.
He hides out for several days and doesn't come back until things have quieted down.
But it was this incident really drove me to want to write this book because I was so struck that a man who was –
committed to the idea of popular sovereignty, the idea that people are the foundation of all power in government, would experience a life-threatening attack by a mob and come out the other side no less committed to that ideal.
I wanted to know how could somebody experience that sort of attack and not for a second stop and think maybe I don't want democracy.
Maybe democracy is too dangerous.
Wilson is without question one of the leading lawyers in the country at the time, if not the leading lawyer.
Everyone looks to him for his legal acumen, but also his knowledge of history and of government that he developed through his training in the Scottish Enlightenment.
But Wilson brings this energy to the convention that I had not noticed before.
He's constantly saying things that sound more like they were said by someone in the 21st century than someone in the 18th century.
And those have to do primarily with the ideals of political equality, the idea that people are the foundation of government and all people are equal, right?
This is not very welcome to a lot of the delegates who are much more interested, say, in their states, right?
They care about making sure their state has equal power.
So
One of the biggest fights at the convention is over the Senate.
Will the Senate be a body of states with equal power or will it be based on the population of the states and the people themselves?
Wilson argues tirelessly throughout the summer for a government based on population.
And he says people should be represented in accordance with their numbers.
Why is this so hard?
Right.
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