Jesse Wegman
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281 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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And I think he doesn't get a pass for that.
Absolutely.
And Wilson was the strongest advocate for popular self-rule.
You know, he says at one point, can we forget for whom we are forming a government?
Is it for men or for the imaginary beings called states?
It is all a mere illusion of names.
We talk of states till we forget what they are composed of.
Right.
He he had this just laser like focus on people as the foundation of all government power.
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.
Well, yes.
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 –
the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as being connected.
So the Declaration of Independence, you know, is based on this theory of popular sovereignty, the idea that when people are not happy with their government, they may change it.
They may change it whenever and however they please.
And that is what they do by first promoting
declaring independence and fighting a war to be independent from Britain, and then by drafting a constitution.
And perhaps the way in which Wilson brings the spirit of the Declaration of Independence most directly into the constitution
happens in the middle of the summer.
He's on this committee.
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