Prof. Greg Jackson
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7,804 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 5d ago
Prof. Greg Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Both are likely, as constitutional scholar Richard Beaman speculates, preaching the importance of the Union to the preservation of American independence.
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As commander of the Continental Army, George saw how a Congress capable of raising, but incapable of funding an army, nearly cost them the war.
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As America's foremost diplomat.
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Ben knows just how cutthroat and realpolitik international diplomacy is.
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That the thirteen states need each other to navigate relations with Britain, France, and Spain now just as much as they did back in 1754, when he first printed his sliced up serpent join or die political cartoon.
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And as the delegates listen, their buzzed minds, all the more open thanks to an excellent cask of porter, they're uniting on the realization that they're not here to revise the Articles of Confederation.
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They're here to kill the Articles and replace them with an altogether better form of union.
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To that end, the Virginia and Pennsylvania delegates spend the next week talking.
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They start each day at the State House meeting new arrivals, like New York's Alexander Hamilton, who shows up May eighteenth.
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But once it's clear they still lack the numbers to convene the convention, it's down to the City Tavern, a favorite haunt of revolutionaries during the war, or Indian Queen Tavern.
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With pints in hand, the small clique continues crafting a plan for a stronger union.
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Or rather, they continue finessing a plan already well in the works, cooked up in the mind of James Madison.
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Alright, time for that proper introduction.
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A son of the slave reliant planter class.
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James hails from the Montpelier plantation in Orange County, Virginia.
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Finishing his studies at Princeton in 1772, he returned home to serve the Revolution, first on the Orange County Committee of Safety, then in the Virginia Legislature, on Governor Thomas Jefferson's council, where the two definitely bonded, and finally in Congress as the Articles of Confederation took effect, where he saw firsthand the need for a better union.
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Hence his passion for it.
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And, as already established, James played a bigger role in organizing this convention in Philly than anyone save possibly Alexander Hamilton.
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A matter that their respective fans will debate forever.
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Now James is in Philadelphia and he's done his homework.
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